hebrew → English transcript

Lavrentiy Beria, Stalin's head of the NKVD, the precursor to the KGB, who said

Show me the man and I will find the crime; point someone out to me, and I'll invent something about him.

That's Ronen Bar's ethos, and the Israeli left rallies behind the KGB.

Are you saying you've gone back to Stalin? What world are you living in?

You taught us about human rights and civil rights; in that name you preach to us,

And now you're silent? I want to tell you something about Ronen Bar, because this is also the explanation for what happened on the night of October seventh.

In the minds of these people, the Oslo mindset, and therefore it looked to people like betrayal,

The Oslo mindset: the right is the enemy, and the Palestinians are our future friends.

Therefore that night, what worried Ronen Bar was that, God forbid, Netanyahu would wake up and there would be an escalation.

Because the right is what's dangerous, and the Palestinians are not what's dangerous.

And that same mentality, and so orders came down--you know, there was on Ynet yesterday,

that at the one place where the order to stay away from the fence didn't arrive, they managed to save people.

What's this 'order to move away from the fence'? Do you know what Ronen Bar did that night?

Ronen Bar went out of his way to keep the sector quiet, to keep the soldiers in their beds,

so that, God forbid, the sensitive Palestinians wouldn't think we were going to attack them.

Because the chief has his back to Gaza and his face to the settlers.

This, this whole mentality, is what stands behind the moral corruption and behind the operational failure.