Erez Tadmor
@tadmorerez48 · Public intellectuals, authors & commentators
Erez Tadmor is an Israeli writer.
Ayman Odeh: “In the next elections, we need to do everything, but everything, to oust Netanyahu.” Is there anyone here who still hasn’t understood what’s happening?
Translated from HebrewAn amazing exposé by Omri Haim: A Hezbollah parliamentarian explains that their regional strategy and their decision whether or not to respond derive from an overarching goal: ousting Netanyahu. Let us recall: Mansour Abbas and Ayman Odeh said this in their own voices as well. And as Muhammad Majadla revealed, this is also Abu Mazen's overarching goal. Is there anyone here who doesn't understand what is happening?
Translated from HebrewOn the one hand, Netanyahu, who crushed Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas, and on the other hand, an ultra-radical leftist who sees Iran as a victim of Israeli aggression... Decide whom you believe.
Translated from HebrewShlomi Eldar, October 2024, after Iran launched 201 ballistic missiles toward Israel: "Everyone who said that Iran had broken the rules... It was us who declared war on Iran first. It was us who went and stole an archive and put on a show with sheets. It was us who killed Ismail Haniyeh..."
Translated from Hebrew80 percent of the public already know not to believe Haaretz. And here is a reminder of who Shlomo Eldar is. In itself, this is not proof that he is lying, but it does remind us that he is a far-left man with a clear ideological motive. And after hundreds of fake stories and libels against Netanyahu collapsed in court and in the court of public opinion, it is clear to me whom I believe
Translated from HebrewSatisfying and encouraging to wake up to a morning like this and discover that most of the Israeli public is already completely immune to the media's blood libels. It used to take us weeks and months to dismantle their fakes and lies. Today, 50–55 percent of the public already has a developed immune system that knows how to reject any defamatory publication not based on hard facts as solid as poured concrete. Every such false libel only strengthens the public's immune system and teaches more people not to believe a word they say. And in the next tweet, an interesting reminder of who Shlomi Eldar is.
Translated from HebrewThe meaning of evacuating the farms is the strangulation of the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, encirclement through illegal Arab construction, turning the settlements into enclaves in the heart of an Arab-built-up area, and ultimately a recipe for withdrawal and the establishment of a terror state in Judea and Samaria. These people pretend to be right-wing, but anyone who votes for them gives them the power to lead the country to a new Oslo.
Translated from HebrewIn my opinion, Bergman did not read "The Revolt of the Generals," or he is deliberately ignoring 95 percent of the facts about the subject he is writing about. And it's not as though this graphomaniac is sparing with words. On the contrary, he buries his manipulations under mountains of endless verbiage that, as noted, ignore a long list of facts, examples, events, and quotations that do not fit his thesis. What I will say is, thank you for continuing the PR campaign that Bergman, Misgav, and co. are running for the book. Thousands of Israelis purchased the book in the past two weeks alone, and we are already in third place on the bestseller list! Keep hitting hard, dear.
Translated from HebrewPay attention to the date: January 2024. These people wanted to surrender three months after October 7. Before Hamas was crushed, before Hezbollah was crushed, and before Am Kalavi and Sha'agat Ha-Ari. The left is counting on public memory being short. They are wrong. We all remember who wanted to surrender and who overcame their resistance and changed the face of the Middle East.
Translated from HebrewThe spin and manipulation will not help you. We have all lived here over the past three years, and we have all seen the same event: on one side, a leader of historic stature who is striving for victory and decisive defeat and crushed Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas. On the other side, a herd of feeble generals, serving and former, in the General Staff and the war cabinet, who pushed for surrender, defeat, and withdrawal to the last centimeter. Everything, absolutely everything, that we achieved in this war was achieved despite the opposition and weakness of the senior generals, and thanks to Netanyahu’s leadership, the fighting spirit of the Victory Generation, and the field ranks. And we all understand that this is also the choice before us from here on: it is either Netanyahu and the continued defeat of the enemy, or the latest puppet on behalf of the herd of defeatist clones who will lead us to weakness and surrender. My assessment is that the public is much smarter than the left-wing studios think and will know how to choose correctly.
Translated from HebrewOn the one hand, Eisenkot, who four days after the pager operation—the most powerful moment for Israel in the campaign up to that point—suggested that we surrender to Hamas and Hezbollah. And on the other hand, Netanyahu, who two days after the disaster, at the height of shock and weakness, pledged to change the face of the Middle East. And that is indeed what he did. The choice had never been easier.
Translated from HebrewThis Bergman spin had already received an adequate response in real time, in November 2024. Let us start with the bottom line that tears the spin apart: the bureau's intelligence officer is responsible for the routine handling of intelligence information and is not the channel for transferring information in an emergency. As you will be able to see in the links I will attach, neither Bergman (nor Nadav Eyal) bothered to respond to the information and simple questions I directed to them on the subject, because they have no ability to provide good answers. And now to the main points: the heads of the security establishment have two obvious ways to update the prime minister with information of strategic importance or information concerning concern about an emergency event: the first proper channel is a direct phone call from the IDF chief of staff and/or the Shin Bet chief to the prime minister. The second proper channel is a direct call from the IDF chief of staff's office/Shin Bet chief's office to the prime minister's military secretary. This indeed happened countless times in the past regarding intelligence information of a level of severity far lower than the information received on the night of October 7. Did the IDF chief of staff and the Shin Bet chief fulfill their duty on the night of the disaster and update Netanyahu through one of these two channels? No. There is no dispute about this. Only at 6:19, after an entire night of discussions, did the Shin Bet chief's chief of staff call the prime minister's military secretary, Major General Avi Gil. They spoke for about six minutes; afterward Gil called the IDF chief of staff's chief of staff, and while they were speaking the Hamas attack began. Only then did Gil call the prime minister. A serious problem. Hertzi Halevi and Ronen Bar failed in their duty to update the prime minister, and as a result an unprecedented disaster occurred. What do they do? For 13 months, the spin doctors seeking to justify Ronen Bar and Hertzi Halevi's reckless decision not to update Netanyahu sat around until they found a scapegoat. Bar and Halevi did not take either of the two obvious routes, and in the final analysis Netanyahu was excluded from the information and conversations that took place throughout the night, but after 13 months of searching, the manipulation with which the spin doctors will try to whitewash the failure was found: a third route was found, indirect, convoluted and flawed, leading from the security establishment to a low-ranking gatekeeper on whom the blame could be dumped: Colonel S., from the military secretariat of the Prime Minister's Office, who was part of a group of intelligence officers updated during the night. This spin is not only an insult to common sense; it is contempt for the public and for the victims of the disaster, who demand truthful answers and genuine accountability, not attempts to whitewash and dump the blame on a junior gatekeeper. As stated, the bureau's intelligence officer is responsible for routine handling of intelligence information and is not the channel for transferring information in an emergency. The bureau intelligence officer's role is to prepare an intelligence file and a regular intelligence briefing for the prime minister; he is not supposed to handle, and is not the channel for, an emergency event or concern about an emergency event. The same applies to students employed at the National Security Council, whose role is mainly to file and catalog intelligence materials; they certainly are not the channel for handling an emergency event. In addition, the message sent to the bureau intelligence officer included an assessment that the information was not unusual and that the command and division would discuss it in the morning. In other words, the claim that he should have shown greater initiative is also a malicious accusation, given that the information he was exposed to came with a downplaying assessment. The bottom line cannot be whitewashed: Netanyahu was not updated until the attack had already begun. Hertzi Halevi and Ronen Bar took upon themselves the authority and freedom to manage the events of the night preceding the massacre as though there were no government in the State of Israel. And this is the question Bergman did not answer in November 2024 (and in my estimation he will choose to ignore it this time as well): if tonight the offices of the Shin Bet chief and the IDF chief of staff receive intelligence similar to that received on the night of the disaster, are the IDF chief of staff and the Shin Bet chief expected to bring it to Netanyahu's attention? Or is it acceptable for them to compartmentalize it and rely on an officer who is copied on some of the information and handles routine intelligence, not concern about an emergency, (and who receives alongside the information downplaying assessments) to be the one who updates the prime minister? And one more thing: I do not know who briefed Bergman on the subject, but this spin is so cynical that it was not even included in the IDF and Shin Bet investigations into the events of the night. In the official versions, the IDF and Shin Bet do not dare claim that this is the proper channel for transferring the information. They leave this humiliation to Bergman and the Kaplan clowns on Twitter. The rest is self-evident. The November 2024 tweet The referral to Nadav Eyal in October 2025
Translated from HebrewThis event is one of the craziest and most reckless events in the history of the state. A Jewish member of Knesset joining the party of the Muslim Brotherhood, a global movement whose overriding goal is to impose Islam on the world, defeat “apostasy,” and, as a byproduct, also erase the Jewish political entity that arose and exists in defiance of the laws of Islam. The Muslim Brotherhood’s strategy in the West is simple: quiet integration, supposedly around social and civic issues, and the creation of civic alliances mainly with left-wing parties, with the aim of taking over Western countries from within, by using seemingly neutral struggles that play the “liberal” flute. They have already conquered London and New York, gained enormous influence in the progressive movement and the Democratic Party in the United States, and are working to gain that same influence here, in the country they seek to erase from the map. Mansour Abbas is pursuing a sophisticated, patient, long-term strategy to destroy the State of Israel from within. And Yoav Segalovich, for the sake of a seat in the next Knesset, is playing into his hands. He will be the Jewish bridge that will supposedly give him the legitimacy to enter the next government of Eisenkot, Bennett, Lieberman, and Yair Golan. There is an entire political camp here that has gone off the rails. Parties that call themselves Zionist, spread slogans about an alliance of those who serve, but boycott Netanyahu and most of Israel’s Jewish public and plan to form a government with the Muslim Brotherhood. This picture is the ultimate warning sign. This is what the next government could look like: Mansour Abbas as the boss, and an assortment of small-time politicians whose only principle is “Just not Bibi,” crawling to his door and groveling before him.
Translated from HebrewAmir Shperling, a senior adviser to the Democrats’ campaign, backs and encourages the bullying of Amir Ohana’s children. Yair Golan neither condemned him nor fired him. Shperling continues in his position as if nothing happened. These people are dangerous; if this is what they allow themselves to do while they are in the opposition, it is frightening to think what they will do to our children when they have power in their hands.
Translated from HebrewThis piece of filth who encourages the humiliation and cruelty of children is a senior official in Yair Golan’s campaign and his fascist party. In his view, this is only the beginning. And he has already received nearly 500 likes for it. If Yair Golan does not fire this scumbag today, it means that he is okay with it. Apparently, this is what he encourages and plans. @YairGolan1
Translated from HebrewAll Israeli citizens must watch this video. Just four days after the pager operation, Israel's most effective and deadly move in the war up to that point, Gadi Eisenkot wants to pursue a defeatist arrangement with Hezbollah by surrendering to Hamas. Compare this weakness on Eisenkot's part with the strength and resilience Netanyahu displayed when, already on October 9, at the height of weakness and shock, he pursued victory and strategic change and pledged: "We will change the face of the Middle East." The same defeatist mentality also stood at the foundation of the "Eisenkot Doctrine," the document the then-chief of staff published in 2018 in which he proposed coming to terms with the nuclearization of countries in the region. Compare this feeble helplessness with Netanyahu's determination when, already in 1992, he warned of Iran's nuclearization and turned the struggle against the Iranian nuclear program into his life's mission. It is doubtful that the choice before us has ever been clearer. On one side, a leader who identifies strategic threats and acts to harness all the nation's forces to stop them, and on the other, a limp technocrat who looks at existential dangers, shrugs helplessly, and proposes that we all come to terms with them. "This is what there is." That same defeatist spirit stood for decades at the foundation of the entire left's approach to the question of a Palestinian state. Some of them did indeed dream and fantasize at first about peace and a new Middle East, but after the buses began exploding, the left and its leaders were unable to change course. They simply changed the rationale: instead of withdrawal to the '67 lines as a path to peace, they began selling withdrawal as a decree of fate arising from a lack of choice: "After all, we all know what the final arrangement will look like." Netanyahu, by contrast, understood that a Palestinian state is a recipe for the certain annihilation of the State of Israel and for a disaster on a scale one hundred or one thousand times greater than October 7. Therefore, he confronted three American administrations (Clinton, Obama, and Biden), fought against the left and all the internal centers of power, and succeeded in burying the Oslo Accords with a donkey's burial. Can anyone even imagine Eisenkot standing up to Obama? To Biden? To Bill Clinton? "We will have to learn to come to terms with a Palestinian state," he would propose to us and call it a "doctrine." Manlis would send him to Eyal Berkovich to recite to us about a "biting arrangement in Judea and Samaria." This man is a gray, dreary technocrat, without vision and devoid of strategic understanding. His perspective on the role of prime minister resembles that of a duty trainee assembling a shift schedule in the war room. The only thing that changes is the scale. Instead of commanding enlisted soldiers or a reconnaissance team, he moves three battalions here or two brigades there. "We will get through the shift safely and go back to sleep in Prikast." Until the next strategic disaster.
Translated from HebrewThis morning too, Uri Misgav continues to lie, so let us explain slowly so that his foolish followers will understand quickly: Ronen Bar and Herzi Halevi did not hide the intelligence from Netanyahu in order to cause a disaster; they hid the information from Netanyahu and the political echelon because they thought they were “loyal to the kingdom, not to the king.” They did not want to deliberately lead to a disaster—as the liar Misgav accuses the prime minister and your faithful servant of claiming. Exactly the opposite: they wanted to prevent Netanyahu from leading to a disaster. They believed the nonsense they had been taught, according to which their role as “gatekeepers” was to protect the public from the foreign interests of the reckless politician. So they, the “gatekeepers,” decided that they were loyal to the kingdom, not to the king, and that they would save the State of Israel from unnecessary military adventures. But what can you do? They are two idiots on steroids. They received mountains of unmistakable intelligence indications about the approaching attack, but instead of fearing the enemy, they feared that Netanyahu would entangle us in a miscalculation. You rebelled against the “king”; you burned the kingdom.
Translated from HebrewLet's sum up the interview on The Patriots: We have a leader of historic scale, not once in a generation, but once in a century, and now we need to choose: give him another 4 years to ensure the security and prosperity of the state, or replace him with a sputtering wreck, a weak, submissive and spineless man who just a few months after October 7 already wanted to surrender to Hamas and Hezbollah, intended to come to terms with a nuclear Iran and plans to form a government with the Muslim Brotherhood and Yair Golan. The choice is in our hands.
Translated from HebrewYou will not be surprised to learn that the pathological liar Uri Misgav continued today as well to spread lies about me and the “generals’ revolt” — even though others and I have already exposed his deceitful face again and again. Misgav, simply put, deceives his followers and relies on his echo chamber being sealed off from outside voices and exposed only to his propaganda machine and that of Schocken Street. To a considerable extent, this crook is right. He has gathered around his social networks an incited, hate-filled mob that is not interested in the facts at all. Most of his followers are indeed dupes who will continue to believe him even if it is proven that he lied again and again and again. But I think Misgav and those like him are missing what is happening outside the psychotic echo chamber of the radical left. In two months, on October 27, a ringing wake-up call from reality awaits them.
Translated from HebrewHere is the hard truth: Eisenkot, Lieberman, Bennett, even Hili Tropper, all these people prefer, by choice, to sit with Mansour Abbas and the Muslim Brotherhood and boycott the Likud and the right-wing camp, which is an absolute majority of the people of Israel. This is the truth. This is the essence of their boycott. And then they dare to lecture about healing, change, and Israeli unity. A world turned upside down.
Translated from HebrewSo how do I know for certain that the polls by the left-wing channels are lies? It is simple: on every subject where the facts can be checked, it is easy to prove that the left-wing channels lie, mislead, and deceive the public. The author argues that these channels falsely accused Netanyahu, Smotrich, and the right of abandoning the hostages for political reasons, presenting everyone who opposed withdrawal from Gaza or demanded that the war continue until Hamas was defeated as someone who was abandoning the hostages. He says the government returned the hostages under much better terms, Israel controls nearly 70 percent of the Strip including the Philadelphi Corridor, and Israel would have international legitimacy to complete the campaign if Hamas refused to disarm, yet the channels attacked Netanyahu for not finishing the job. He also accuses them of repeating false claims against the fighters of Force 100 and covering up the investigation, of filling Netanyahu’s cases with slanted leaks for years, and of hiding the collapse of the cases in court and serious offenses by investigators and prosecutors. He says they highlight the few cases of Jewish violence in Judea and Samaria while ignoring daily attempts to murder Jews, turned judicial reform into a coup, made reservists who stopped volunteering into heroes, called Qatar-gate a Qatar-fake, protected Ronen Bar and Herzi Halevi, portrayed Biden as an outstanding president, and turned Trump into a Nazi, an antisemite, and a mad dictator. His conclusion is that the left-wing studios lie day after day, so they lie even more in polls that cannot be checked in real time. He says their false polls are intended to increase turnout in the left-wing bloc, create a fake sense that Likud voters are abandoning the party, and demoralize the right so that as many right-wing voters as possible stay home on election day. In two months, he says, everyone will know that the polls were false. The election is close, so go vote and bring every right-wing person you can.
Translated from HebrewThanks to the bullying and lies of Uri Misgav and the newspaper Haaretz, this week we sold more than a thousand copies of The Generals' Revolt (the number is closer to two thousand, but we will know the exact figures only in a few days). But the fact that several thousand educated right-wing people will read the book and get to know the issue in depth does not erase the fact that tens of thousands of Misgav's and Haaretz's readers and followers are being fed absolute lies that Misgav spreads maliciously and knowingly. So too the Galeria supplement, which does not even mention who the liar who signed this text is — someone who, with high probability, has not read The Generals' Revolt and simply echoes Misgav's lies. This is simply how the echo chamber of the Haaretz circles works: a liar echoes a liar echoes a liar and so on — while the newspaper's readers are convinced they are being fed by the newspaper for thinking people and by Israel's media elite, and therefore place blind trust in them — even as they are stuffed with the complete lies of shameless propagandists. Simply put: this audience, which sees and regards itself as an elite, suffers from authoritarian thinking. Misgav and co. are perceived in their eyes as a reliable source of authority, and the charlatans from Shoken Street exploit this to sell them lies and blood libels with no factual basis. This time it is about Erez Tadmor and the book The Generals' Revolt, and thousands of other times about Benjamin Netanyahu, IDF fighters, the State of Israel, or the settler public. A liar echoes a liar echoes a liar, and a herd of gullible readers who trust them, submit to authority, and believe the blood libels without casting doubt on them. Well then, I invite everyone who is interested in the facts and cares to learn in depth about the issue of government-army relations in Israel, to read The Generals' Revolt and then compare it with the texts of Misgav and Haaretz. Step out for a moment from the authoritarian echo chamber of the newspaper Haaretz and you will benefit twice: you will both learn the issue in depth and learn henceforth not to believe a word that comes out of the mouths or keyboards of the despicable liars from Shoken Street.
Translated from HebrewThreatening a person’s livelihood because you disagree with them is bullying. It is despicable violence. This violent bully is a former writer for “Eretz Nehederet.” But what is more important is that he is a senior figure in Yair Golan’s campaign and the party that calls itself “The Democrats.” He is the one who represents and formulates their positions. These are their plans. These people are dangerous. Dangerous to democracy, freedom, livelihood, and our rights as citizens. They plan to persecute, silence, bully, and harm the livelihood of anyone who disagrees with them. They say this explicitly again and again and again. One only needs to listen and internalize it. The fascists called “The Democrats,” on their own, are no more than a fringe party. But the one who intends to give these bullies the power to realize their fascist fantasies is the one who plans to form a government with them: Bennett, Lieberman, and Eisenkot, who plan to take these crazies and give them the most senior positions in their next government. These people are blatantly anti-democratic. They are violent, incited, and full of hatred for anyone who disagrees with them. Even Dror Rafael, a pleasant and affable centrist, is an enemy to them. Let the public know and beware.
Translated from HebrewAvindav Begin is a liar. Or he is an idiot with the IQ of an eggplant who does not understand simple Hebrew. Dr. Ido Netanyahu's first question in the conversation, word for word, and anyone who wants to can watch it for themselves starting at the 41st second of the conversation: "When I read your book... I understand that you are not a proponent of the conspiracy theory regarding October 7, by the way, neither am I... so tell me why you are at least not a great proponent of the conspiracy theory?" Then for many long minutes I argue that the more reasonable explanation in my view is that there was no treason, but rather that on the night of October 7 there was a revolt by failed, stupid and subversive generals. And I add that the events of that night were the peak, or in fact the nadir, at which a subversive political and organizational culture that had developed in the security establishment and the senior bureaucracy over the years was concentrated at a critical point. What is known in our parts as the "gatekeepers" ethos. I further add that the possibility of treason must not be ruled out categorically, and that this possibility must be investigated to the very end, and I very much hope that it will also be ruled out, but I explain at length why there is another explanation that is more logical in my view. What Avindav Begin is doing here, maliciously, is cutting the sentences at precisely the points necessary to mislead his followers, taking quarter-sentences out of context and presenting them as the exact opposite of what both Ido and I explain clearly and at length. The height of Avindav's wretchedness is his manipulation of Ido Netanyahu's remarks regarding Roosevelt, in which Ido sarcastically mocks the conspiracy theorists who believe that Roosevelt knew about the planned Japanese attack, but the deceitful Avindav presents them as though this were Ido's position. Since Avindav Begin himself is nothing, and the only reason anyone ever bothered to ask his opinion on any matter is the fact that he is Menachem Begin's grandson, the question arises: what exactly is the connection between Menachem Begin, who was known for his values, his credibility and his adherence to the truth, and his lying grandson? And a short question also for the gaslighting artists who incited the revolt, subversion and trampling of the elected leadership's authority over the security establishment, and who now roll their eyes and try to portray anyone who talks about this revolt as a deranged conspiracy theorist: the demagogic sound bite "Loyal to the kingdom — not to the king," the slogan by which the "gatekeepers" were incited to undermine the elected leadership—who invented this sentence? Erez Tadmor? Gadi Taub? Arel Segal? Who invented this sentence and what exactly was it intended to achieve? Happy to help. And for those of you who are interested in facts and not Avindav Begin's lies, here is the full conversation with Dr. Ido Netanyahu
Translated from HebrewAnd thanks to Uri Misgav for a legendary PR campaign that put 'The Generals' Revolt' directly on Tzomet Sfarim's bestseller list. May the destruction of the newspaper 'Haaretz' comfort you!
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