On Sunday, Dec. 1, Israel’s Channel 12 hosted a conversation with Moshe “Bogie” Ya’alon, a former chief of staff of the Israeli army who later served as defense minister. In an illuminating exchange, Ya’alon insisted on defining Israel’s actions in Gaza as “ethnic cleansing,” argued that the arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court in The Hague were entirely justified, and stated that he himself would have issued such warrants “long ago” against Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, and perhaps even Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
To Yaron Abraham, the Channel 12 interviewer, this was entirely unexpected; he seemed to take it personally that Ya’alon was unwilling to repeat the standard Israeli mantra that the “IDF is the most moral army in the world.” ….more
