Moshe Yaalon

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Moshe Yaalon  link Website (Officer,deep state actor)
Born	Moshe Smilansky 24 June 1950 Kiryat Haim, Israel
Party	Likud
Former General in the IDF, accused of war crimes

Moshe "Bogie" Ya'alon is an Israeli politician and former Chief of the General Staff of the Israeli Defence Force, during which time he led the army's suppression of the al-Aqsa Intifada launched in September 2000. He was also Israel's Defence Minister under Benjamin Netanyahu from 2013 until his resignation on 20 May 2016.

Head of Military Intelligence

According to Tanya Reinhart, Yaalon opposed a number of senior intelligence officials who supported the Oslo peace process during his tenure as head of the Aman military intelligence organisation:

But gradually, such voices were silenced. A dominant figure emerging during these years is Major-General Moshe Ya'alon, who is also known for his connections with the settlers. As head of the military intelligence – Aman – between 1995 and 1998, Ya'alon confronted the chief of staff, Amnon Shahak, and has consolidated the anti-Oslo line which now dominates the military intelligence view.

Charges of War Crimes

He currently faces a class action lawsuit brought against him by the Center for Constitutional Rights on behalf of the survivors of the Qana Massacre in 1996, which he oversaw. He had already participated in two earlier invasions of Lebanon, and later on he went on to command the Israeli forces in the Occupied Palestinian Territory of the West Bank.

In late 2006, Ya'alon was in New Zealand on a private fund-raising trip organised by the Jewish National Fund. An Auckland District Court Judge issued a warrant for his arrest for alleged war crimes arising from his role in the 2002 assassination of Hamas leader Salah Shahadeh in Gaza City, in which at least 14 Palestinian civilians were killed, saying that New Zealand had an obligation to uphold the Geneva Convention. The Attorney-General of New Zealand, Michael Cullen, overruled the warrant after advice from the Crown Law Office that there was insufficient evidence.

Controversies

Ya'alon's public pronouncements have been controversial. On August 27, 2002, he told Ha'aretz, "The Palestinian threat harbours cancer-like attributes that have to be severed. There are all kinds of solutions to cancer. Some say it's necessary to amputate organs but at the moment I am applying chemotherapy." *

Despite his hawkishness, Ya'alon's tenure was cut short when his aggressive deputy Aluf Dan Halutz started showing promise as an even more hawkish alternative. In February 2005, Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz made the controversial decision not to prolong Ya'alon's service as Chief of Staff for another year. This marked the climax of tensions between Mofaz and Ya'alon, which had arisen partly through Ya'alon's objection to the Israel's unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip. Ya'alon's 37-year service in the Israeli military ended on June 1, 2005.

Israel's ideology of Jewish supremacy resembles Nazi race theory

In 2026, Ya'alon in a tweet compared Israel's ideology of Jewish supremacy to Nazi race theory:

The ideology of 'Jewish supremacy', which has become dominant in the government of Israel, is reminiscent of the Nazi race theory. 'But one may not compare!'[...] I was familiar with the warnings of Prof. Yeshayahu Leibowitz, concerning the process of bestialization towards us becoming 'Judeo Nazis' (in his words), [concerning] our control of another people [...] I have never deluded myself that only through concessions would we receive 'peace now', and I also understood the danger of 'Jewish supremacy' upon our future and existence.