I once had my private life. I raised a family, a business, a home-thank God. I voted for a different party each election. Even the Pensioners Party once got my vote. What suddenly came over me, causing me to leave my warm corner and start fighting with the whole world?

I know exactly what it was. It was a kind of thunderbolt that hit me over the head, and I remember it as if it hit me a moment ago. Suddenly I understood that what I see is what I get. In other words, there are no secrets. What I see is actually the reality. It was when Rabin and Peres brought the Oslo Accords. Then, whenever the leftist of the day arguing with me in reserve duty would run out of explanations for this insanity, the trump card would be produced: “Do you mean to tell me that Rabin, the chief of staff of the Six-Day War, doesn’t know these things? He must know things that you don’t know, and if he says that it’s good I am relaxed.”

One fine day I understood that the people up there do not know anything fundamental that I do not. The way they rule us and demand that we obey them is based on the fact that we, the ordinary citizens, believe that the people in power have secret information. But suddenly I realized that the basic information is known to all. This defensive shield of the ordinary citizen suddenly crumbled for me. The emperor truly had no clothes…

As soon as I understood this, I realized that the responsibility was in my hands. I can no longer get up in the morning, go to work and depend on the leaders, who must know something that I do not. Now I would like, with great cruelty, to spoil this fun for you too. It is not that I am a sadist or something, but the present situation has all the makings of a real danger to the existence of the state. You can see it yourselves, and all I am telling you is that what you see is precisely the reality. You are on your own.

Three facts that we all understand

First, three facts that we all see and know full well: before our eyes, the defeat of the US in Iraq is being completed. In October 2001, after the World Trade Center fell and everyone was certain that the United States was going to teach the entire Arab world a lesson, I predicted this defeat accurately. I wrote then that the US had lost the war, since it did not really identify the enemy, and just as Israel was withdrawing from one defeat to another, the Americans were also on a collision course.

It is clear to us all that the US, in its present situation, does not intend to carry out any additional military operation in the Middle East. There is certainly no point in depending on Europe, which is being painted green, “Arab” Europe as some are already calling it today. In other words, we remain alone versus an almost-nuclear Iran.

However, the IDF, after burying its soul in the sands of Gush Katif, is no longer capable of defending the State of Israel. Maj. Gen. Ron Tal said clear things in this respect. It is worthwhile to listen. Everyone is searching for the answer in pointless beheadings or in improving the army’s technical ability, and do not understand that the problem lies much deeper. Those who did not disobey the expulsion order, not only did they not preserve the integrity of the IDF, they destroyed it with their own hands.

I am not talking at all about the security collapse caused by “disengagement,” a collapse whose fruits were well described this week by the GSS director. I am talking about the moral collapse that has wiped out the IDF. Whether you agree with me or not, the facts are indisputable.

Last summer, in the first encounter with an enemy that is not the settlers, the IDF suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of a handful of guerillas in Lebanon. Recently the IDF met with a humiliating defeat in Beit Hanoun. In both cases, these were military operations initiated by the IDF, at the conclusion of which the security situation became worse than it was before.

Anyone who wishes to deceive himself with contortions and post-modern terminology can take comfort in the interviews given by Dan Halutz and Gal Hirsch, but basically-we lost. Until the IDF vomits out from its midst the entire leadership that was involved in planning and implementing that transfer and destruction, there is no point in talking about rehabilitating the army.

In addition, the person who was placed at the head of the Defense Ministry was the most suitable from a political standpoint, but in my opinion, the worst from a professional standpoint. To hell with the country, the seat is much more important. Nasrallah has already managed to forget the name of the union leader. We, on the other hand, will really never forget the name of Amir Peretz. Nothing can be done with the present leadership The entire security and political leadership is currently occupied with personal survival. They have neither time nor interest in the state’s citizens. From what I read and hear, the commanders in the field do not trust them, and rightfully so. The poor showing of the IDF in Lebanon and Gaza leaves no room for doubt as to its ability to currently provide a military response to the Iranian threat.

Various commentators and scholars try to argue that a nuclear Iran is actually not so bad. When it comes down to brass tacks, say the same commentators and scholars who also supported Oslo and disengagement, Ahmadinejad will not sacrifice himself and his country in order to destroy Israel, just as the Soviet Union never used the nuclear weapons that stood at its disposal.

The problem is that there is no basis for comparison. Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev never declared their intention of destroying the United States. Ahmadinejad does not even try to conceal his intentions with regard to us. Unlike the US and most countries of the world, Israel is a kind of city-state. The Tel Aviv area, which is for all intents and purposes Israel, can be neutralized in a single nuclear strike.

True, it is possible that a submarine or a plane that manages to take off will be able to exact a price from Iran for wiping Israel off the amp, but Iran is not a city-state like Israel. Will Ahmadinejad, the man who marched thousands of Iranian children into the Iraqi minefields in order to blow them up and make room for the tanks, not be willing to sacrifice a few Iranian cities in order to become the modern Saladin, the leader of the Muslim world, the immortal who liberated the Middle Eastern “Muslim expanse” from the “Zionist pigs and monkeys”?

These are the facts that we all know. The inept band leading the country has no other significant information. The responsibility is now in your hands. Can something be done? The answer is that nothing can be done with the present leadership. A leadership is needed that will bring about a moral revolution. A leadership that will restore our justice to us.

Only such a revolution will truly make it possible to rehabilitate the country and the IDF, and enable us to cope with the danger of the approaching Holocaust. The only public that has the moral codes and the overall responsibility for the fate of the people of Israel, the public that is capable of producing a leadership that is suitable to lead such a revolution, is the same public that has been singled out as the enemy of the people-the orange public. Go to them.

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