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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 536

Commanders for Israel's Security

President Isaac Herzog delivers a message to the nation from his office in Jerusalem, February 12, 2023. (Haim Zach/GPO)
February 16, 2023, 4:53 pm
400 ex-security chiefs urge Herzog not to sign laws that negate Israel’s core values
Former heads of police, Shin Bet, Mossad warn legal shakeup ‘will cause damage for generations’; constitution scholar says president’s power symbolic, refusal wouldn’t carry weight
By Michael Bachner
Illustrative: Palestinians clash with Israeli security forces during a protest in the village of Beit Dajan, in the West Bank, on December 9, 2022. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)
January 23, 2023, 11:54 am
Former defense legal adviser warns against planned government moves in West Bank
Ahaz Ben-Ari says the role carved out for Smotrich in the Defense Ministry may harm security, and Ben Gvir’s proposed immunity for soldiers could cause international legal trouble
By Emanuel Fabian
View of the US Consulate building in Jerusalem on October 27, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 16, 2021, 12:27 am
Group of ex-IDF generals urges MKs to back US reopening of Jerusalem consulate
Commanders for Israel’s Security chairman says Biden plan consistent with stated Israeli desire to strengthen PA, pans politicians for ‘inflating issues to existential proportions’
By Jacob Magid
The Efrat settlement in the Etzion Bloc, November 27, 2018. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
May 21, 2019, 6:27 pm
Netanyahu doubles down on West Bank annexation after ex-generals speak out
Prime minister says ‘land in Judea and Samaria is our patrimony,’ in response to former security officials’ warning that move will bolster terror groups and harm Israel’s security
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference in Washington, DC, on March 6, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Nicholas Kamm)
March 5, 2019, 11:10 pm
What if a desperate Netanyahu embraces West Bank annexation?
Such a move would undermine any credible pursuit of peace and threaten Israel’s future as a Jewish and democratic state
By Susie Gelman and David A. Halperin
Retired IDF major general Amnon Reshef of the Commanders for Israel's Security group seen at press conference in Tel Aviv on March 11, 2015, where the group criticized the security and political conduct of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Ben Kelmer/Flash90)
October 4, 2018, 8:26 am
Top Israeli ex-officials warn US Jews that Israel on ‘reckless’ path to 1 state
Commanders for Israel’s Security, led by IDF hero of Yom Kippur War, to tour US arguing against annexation of West Bank
By Ron Kampeas
Former Mossad chief Efraim Halevy (right) and Saudi Prince Turki bin Faisal al-Saud (composite image: Wikimedia Commons/AP)
October 9, 2017, 11:15 pm
Saudi royal, former Mossad chief to talk two states in a NY synagogue
Israel policy group will hold five US events this month to ‘grapple with’ peace process in face of Trump’s tepidity on Palestinian statehood
By Eric Cortellessa
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, center, waves with the released Palestinian prisoners at his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah on August 14 , 2013. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
June 23, 2017, 4:41 pm
Former Israeli generals warn against US bill slashing funds to PA
Commanders for Israel’s Security say Taylor Force Act may weaken Palestinian leadership, allowing extremists to take over West Bank
By ToI Staff
Emanuel Shahaf
January 18, 2017, 3:58 pm
Emanuel Shahaf
The IDF generals’ racist campaign
Some retired military honchos are fanning fears with false claims of a demographic threat to Israeli democracy
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) leads a Likud faction meeting in the Knesset, January 16, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 16, 2017, 4:54 pm
Likud MKs hail beleaguered ‘King Bibi,’ who pans graft probe
PM tells faction meeting the ‘fake investigation’ against him is part of a ‘media conspiracy’; top ministers stay away; Bennett defends AG
By Raoul Wootliff and Marissa Newman
A campaign by the 'Commanders for Israel's Security' organization features billboards depicting the Palestinian flag, with the message, 'One State for Two People -- Palestine.' One such billboard hangs over the Ayalon highway in central Tel Aviv on January 15, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
January 15, 2017, 9:47 pm
Former defense leaders take aim at Bennett’s annexation plan
In new campaign, ex-security chiefs warn of Israel losing Jewish character and democracy if settlement ‘messianists’ have their way
By Judah Ari Gross
Retired IDF major general Amnon Reshef of the Commanders for Israel's Security group seen at press conference in Tel Aviv on March 11, 2015, where the group criticized the security and political conduct of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Ben Kelmer/Flash90)
January 15, 2017, 11:39 am
Advertising in Arabic, ex-generals urge separation from Palestinians
Group warns in full-page poster that lack of Palestinian state threatens Israel’s security and Jewish character
By ToI Staff
French President Francois Hollande (C), United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (C-L), French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault (C-R), US Secretary of State John Kerry (4th R), European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Federica Mogherini (3rd R) and officials pose for a group photo at an international meeting in a bid to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process in Paris, on June 3, 2016. (AFP Photo/Pool/Kamil Zihnioglu)
June 7, 2016, 1:49 am
For Israelis and Palestinians, peace plans just keep coming
A slew of proposals have been put forward in recent weeks to revive negotiations and solve the decades-long Middle East conflict
By Ben Sales
Palestinian stone throwers stand next to burning wood during clashes with Israeli security forces in Shuafat in East Jerusalem on October 5, 2015. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)
May 28, 2016, 5:12 am
Israeli ex-officers issue peace plan, condemn gov’t inaction
New initiative calls for freeze on settlement building and acceptance of Arab Peace Initiative in principle
By Ian Deitch
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon, November 23, 2015. (Emil Salman/Pool)
May 16, 2016, 5:26 pm
Ex-IDF top officers back Ya’alon in tiff with Netanyahu
The group Commanders for Israel’s Security says military brass has the right to express independent views
By ToI Staff
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