Opinion  Yossi Yehoshua
Gadi Eisenkot: a leading moral figure
Yossi Yehoshua
Published: 18.02.16, 23:24
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1. Krav Maga Trained can Disarm 13 year old
Zola   (02.19.16)
If a thirteen year old girl Attacks with a knife not in a backstabbing a Krav Maga Defense is Effective even a hit with a gun in quick defence and attack. Stabbing from behind or using guns all defences are justified though the Hatred is harsh and painful .
2.  Moral? Rather mortal to
ORA ,   JERUSALEM   (02.19.16)
risking soldiers lifes just to please media.
3. Israel needs few generals from
Mike ,   Edmonton, AB   (02.19.16)
the Serbian Army. They know how to take care of business. This fatso Eisenkot may know how to make a shakshuka, other than that please God help Israel.
4. enought with this bs
harold   (02.19.16)
this holier than thou, moral army philosophy is getting jews killed and maimed though idf leaders do not see it. civilians ask do they have to do thefighting themselves. yes, you have to as you live in the middle east. here is the real story. if you are attackedf, shoot to finish off the attacker. have your arms ready and dond't walk around thinking hashem is protecting you 24/7. god helps those who help themselves. It was an idf soldier no less who was killed. wake up and stop thinking you are invincable.
5. Ventilating our foes is the moral thing to do!
Chaim ,   Israel   (02.19.16)
Eisenkot is preaching more of the same false "morality" which has unnecessarily cost thousands of Israelis this lives and wellbeing. Ventilating our foes is the moral thing to do. I wish Israel's foes knew they would get totally ventilated if they attacked Israelis. Or even planned to. That would save an enormous number of lives.
6. On the way to another debacle like in Lebanon ,for the same
ab   (02.18.16)
reason : trying to make IDF a social care organization serving arabs. Great morality,letting itself to be knifed before shooting-and then only with only one bullet,preferably only grazing the holy body of the holy arab. Eisencot was a General duing Lebanon war,look at what a victory he brought then.
7. Sorry, but IDF and morality=antithesis, doesn't go together
Chaim   (02.19.16)
1) And since when do seculars even know what morality means? 2) To whom is Eisenkot trying to show of his "morality"? He'd do better if he'd be a professional leader and shoot terrorists before they have a chance to shoot him instead of showing weakness.
8. Moral leader my ass...the very same day a soldier
Al   (02.19.16)
under his command is stabbed by two terrorists who this bozo general would rather have coddled. Its time to clean house and throw these moron leaders to the curb. Either Israel does this or it is toast.
9. MORALITY /VS/ REALITY!?????
JL ,   USA   (02.19.16)
WOW. I'm so glad that you are "moral". so does that mean you will not do what is necessary to defend your people against IMMOTRAL terrorists. HUHHHHH ,,, GADI SWEETIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
10. He Says Something Stupid, and Suddenly.....
Reuven Brauner ,   Raanana, Israel   (02.19.16)
he is a "moral leader"? By whose standards of "morality"? Some idiot columnist's?
11. to #10
(02.19.16)
Listen, he is already running for a spot on Meretz party list.
12. MORAL IS FOR A FOOTBALL MATCH
CAPTAIN OBVIOUS ,   SAFED OBVIOUS   (02.19.16)
Moral is for a tennis match or world cup soccer. War and survival has nothing to do with being moral. There is nothing moral in being a victim.
13.  JEWISH GUILT
STIGMUND FREUD ,   SAFED PSYCHOLOGY   (02.19.16)
Jews have difficulty being happy without feeling guilty ,including and especially when there is little genuine need for those feelings. GO FIGURE.
14. THE MORAL OF THE STORY
DA RAP ARTISTE ,   SAFED RAP HOUSE   (02.19.16)
Yo , da harsh reality is yo must not lose yo morality , nor lose yo sanity ,in a gesture of vanity , one who talks too much is full of oral , but he aint necessarly moral , do not rest on yo Laurel , yo do not vent your spleen ,and empty an entire magazine ,and lose yo sheen . no ifs and buts , a 13 year-old-girl with scissors don't make the cut .
15. TO BE..OR NOT TO BE
BILL SHAKESPEARE ,   SAFED BARD   (02.19.16)
THAT is the question . whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows and knives of outrageous fortune ( Terror ) or take arms against a Sea of troubles and by opposing them with full magazines end them ,to die , to sleep and to suffer the bullshite of immorality?
16. CONSCIENCE
BILL SHAKESPEARE ,   SAFED BARD   (02.19.16)
" Thus conscience does make cowards of us all ." { Hamlet . }
17. Immorality
Michael ,   Raanana, israel   (02.19.16)
He who is merciful to the cruel, shall surely be cruel to the merciful. The Ramatkal has disgraced his uniform. He needs to resign.
18. False Morality is Conceit
A Simple Jew ,   Beer Sheva   (02.20.16)
Eisenkot isn't moral when he endangers Jewish soldiers to protect Arab terrorists. He misunderstands his job: He is not a PR flack. He is the Chief of Staff. His job is to protect Jews, not pander to the goyem.
19. Grest quotes
JRS   (02.19.16)
"I have no intention to wear the uniform of the organization called the Israeli Defence Force because it fires artillery shells on innocent civilians, including women and children. It is an organization that erects racist walls that separate people from their livelihood, farms, groves and graveyards. It is an organization that defends fascist settlers who routinely violate the law and uproot the olive trees of their neighbors. I am not willing to join such a criminal organization" "How did we get to the point where Israeli soldiers are preventing women in labor from reaching a hospital? ... this is also the other side of terrorism - Israeli terrorism. A roadblock that doesn't let pregnant women in labor pass is a lethal roadblock. It attacks innocent civilians, just as in a suicide bombing attack." "The world is rightly horrified at the cruel and bloody deaths of Israeli civilians, including babies and small children, inflicted by terrorist suicide bombers. Grievous though every one of these deaths most certainly is, it cannot be denied that during the three years of the Second Intifada the Israelis have killed three times as many Palestinians, some of them terrorists (in illegal targeted assassinations) but most of them innocent civilians, including babies and pregnant women." (Gerald Kaufman, 22 November 2003
20. What - ? -
Arn. ,   Sweden.   (02.20.16)
Is He a Warrior or a Humanitarian ?. Does He not Believe in God ? Humanity to Humans by all means but, War is not Human, its Satanic or Divine. A Scissor vielding 13 year old Girl intended uppon Killing, is in no way Humanitarian. War is awful and discussting as is exhibited by such an Young Girl with such intentions, but a warrior must not forget his duty to Protect His Cheep from such awfullness, and He has to Endure all awfullnesses for His duty to be carriesd out. When the Wolfs comes in the Figure of a Young Girl like this, its humanly awfull to have to kill Her, but that is the fruit of War, and of cause it challenge the good side in a warrior but, He must discriminate between the Person and the Case. Arn.
21. I think it was General Patton who said -
Arn. ,   Sweden.   (02.20.16)
The Highest thing is not to sacrifice Yourself for Your Country but, to sacrifice Your Enemy for it. I think He had a point in that. Arn.Sweden.
22. 21 Arn, Sweden: So when are the Swedish males going to
Rivkah   (02.20.16)
start sacrificing the Somali and other criminal migrants in Sweden whose crimes are about to cause the collapse of Sweden, so the Swedes can be worthy of the name Man again. Letting 25% of the women in Sweden be raped by Somali Islamic migrant enemies in Sweden caused the loss of the title Men for Swedes who are nothing more than males of a species to allow such horrors on women and children and now on males there, too.
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