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America and Israel Are Fighting the Same Deep-State Battle
A disturbing report in The Washington Post says senior U.S. military commanders warned Secretary of War Pete Hegseth that renewing the war against Iran would be “unsustainable.”
The military assessment itself is not the real scandal. Senior commanders absolutely should give elected leaders their most candid professional assessments, even when those assessments contradict what the political leadership wants to hear, in private.
The problem begins when internal assessments are leaked to the media and used to generate public pressure against the policies of the elected government.
That is the deeper danger.
The operational reality is that the United States remains the most powerful military force in the world. America can fight Iran and prevail on other fronts if necessary. Of course there would be costs, there are always costs, and military professionals have an obligation to explain those costs.
But ultimately, who makes the decision?
The elected leadership or unelected officials who believe their professional judgment should effectively determine national policy?
This is precisely why Americans need to understand that they are dealing with the same fundamental problem that we Israelis have been confronting for years.
I constantly talk about Israel's deep state: powerful unelected figures within our legal, security, intelligence and bureaucratic establishments who use their positions to obstruct government policies and appointments, while selective leaks to mainstream media outlets create public pressure against decisions made by the people Israel elected.
This deep state reality was also a major contributor to the catastrophe of October 7. In the critical days and hours before the jihadi invasion, senior military and intelligence officials made consequential decisions while withholding critical warnings and dangers from Netanyahu and the elected political leadership. At the same time, on the morning of Oct. 7, legal constraints and debates over authorities and rules of engagement further complicated the government's ability to respond with the speed and decisiveness the emergency invasion demanded.
That is why accountability cannot stop with the terrorists who invaded Israel. The deep state officials who left Israel vulnerable, and prevented the catastrophe from being stopped or dramatically reduced, must also be fully investigated and punished.
The military, intelligence and legal establishments cannot demand enormous power and independence and then escape accountability when that power fails the country at its most critical moment.
At its core, the mentality is profoundly anti-democratic: The voters don't understand. Their elected representatives can't be trusted. We, the professionals, know better.
And therefore the deep state establishment must save the people from themselves.
That is not democracy.
President Trump is the first U.S. President confronting this entrenched deep state institutional power. And Netanyahu's current government is the first government confronting the Israeli deep state entrenched institutional power.
That is why I tell people: Don't be discouraged by how ferocious the deep state resistance has become.
In many ways, its intensity tells us how threatened the deep state feels today, as never before.
In Israel, it is no longer even “deep.” It is being exposed. More and more people are seeing how unelected officials abuse their positions and institutional power in profoundly undemocratic ways.
The Supreme Court protecting a fired Attorney General, while also shielding the former Military Advocate General from investigation, even after she admitted involvement in leaking a video of IDF soldiers that was presented around the world as evidence of horrific abuse, fueling an enormous international blood libel against Israeli soldiers and contributing to condemnations of Israel at the UN?
The IDF Chief allowing her to retire with a fat pension without even waiting for a proper investigation and potential punishment stripping her pension? The Supreme Court blocking or delaying critical October 7 investigations involving Brig. Gen. Oren Solomon and the State Comptroller?
Religious soldiers punished even when following army protocol, while senior commanders responsible for the catastrophic military failures of October 7, that led to the greatest catastrophe since the Holocaust, have escaped investigation and accountability?
With every passing day, the contradictions become harder to hide. And these are only a partial list.
The establishment that once operated largely beyond public scrutiny is exposing itself through its own actions. And more and more Israelis are seeing it.
Israelis are waking up. And once people see how the system really operates, it becomes very difficult to make them unsee it.
The deep state can succeed only as long as it operates largely hidden from public view.
But that does not mean the struggle will be easy. Quite the opposite.
An entrenched establishment that feels its power slipping away becomes like a wounded lion surrounded, more dangerous and ferocious than ever, willing to tear through everything in its path in order to survive.
That is the stage we are witnessing now.
Don't be discouraged by its ferocity. Its ferocity is a sign that it knows it has been exposed.
Look at Israel. We are surrounded by very real jihadi enemies who have murdered our people and openly seek our destruction. Yet day after day, enormous political and media attention is directed at religious soldiers, Jews living in Judea and Samaria, and the latest alleged scandal of “settler violence.”
Meanwhile, there is NO scrutiny of the jihadi Muslim populations in Gaza, Judea and Samaria, and even among Israeli citizens, including individuals who otherwise live ordinary lives in Israel working as doctors, lawyers, bus drivers or pharmacists.
Instead of relentlessly exposing and confronting the 1,400+ year jihadi ideology that fuels terrorism against Jews, the deep state and their partners in the mainstream media obsess with portraying religious soldiers and Jewish settlers as the danger to Israel.
That distortion should concern every Israeli.
Meanwhile, a proudly Jewish majority increasingly wants Israel to embrace its Jewish national identity, strengthen our hold on our ancestral homeland, defeat our jihadist enemies and govern according to the mandate voters give their elected representatives.
That clashes directly with the deep state progressive, globalist worldview that too treats nationalism, especially unapologetic Jewish nationalism, as something dangerous that must be restrained.
We already saw where that political worldview could lead when an Israeli government became dependent on Ra'am, the Muslim Brotherhood political party in Israel. And Eizenkot wants to depend upon them again if he becomes Prime Minister in our upcoming elections.
The battle in America and Israel is therefore much bigger than Trump or Netanyahu.
Who ultimately controls our nations?
Will Americans determine America's future through elections? Will the Jewish people determine Israel's future through elections?
Or will increasingly powerful unelected deep state establishments reserve for themselves the ability to obstruct policies whenever voters choose a direction they dislike?
This is why we cannot become discouraged.
The uglier the headlines become, the more important it is to expose institutional abuses, demand accountability and defend the principle that government derives its legitimacy from the people.
The answer to an unaccountable establishment is not despair. It is more democracy. That is what judicial reform is about in Israel, to restore our democracy usurped by a deep state dictatorial judicial system.
And both Americans and Israelis must wake up, and vote properly in elections for the parties that want to neuter the deep state, before the mainstream media and unelected officials succeed in convincing us that the parties protecting the deep state are the ones “protecting democracy.”
We will overcome. Don’t despair. Strengthen your faith and help us at the Pulse of Israel in sharing the truth.
Remember, we are winning and we will win!
Am Yisrael Chai!!!
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