I am not completely stupid

Let's compare today's expert publication with my 6-year-old assumption.

===    2026 HARVARD'S SPITFIRE TENTACLES. Author: Victoria Wexelman-Khodak

Against the backdrop of all the events of international and even fateful significance, a modest and unnoticed announcement was made that the Pentagon was completely ending its cooperation with Harvard and announcing that from now on, senior officers would no longer be sent to Harvard for training and advanced education. The officers would be allowed to complete their studies, but that would be the end of it.

In Israel, this message was received with interest, as senior officers or mid-level officers of the IDF were sent to study at Harvard for further promotion. Harvard's tuition fees were very expensive, and they were funded by the Jewish billionaire Wexner through his Wexner Foundation. Almost all of the IDF's senior officers had access to Harvard through this foundation.

One of the foundation's graduates admitted that the officers were offered close cooperation with American agencies, which is referred to as recruitment in less diplomatic terms. Refusing to cooperate meant the end of their careers.
Officers and government officials at Harvard were taught that they were the true elite, the experienced professionals who knew better than any head of state or government what to do and how to do it, and who were ready to take over if the head of government made the wrong decisions. The wrong decisions from the perspective of Harvard's ideology, of course, and we all know what Harvard's ideology is.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is now publishing excerpts from the minutes of the government and security cabinet meetings that are available to the prime minister. These were submitted to the State Comptroller as part of the investigation into the October 7 failure. Notably, the army and intelligence leadership refused to testify to the State Comptroller, while Netanyahu sat with him and testified for over four hours. Immediately after the submission of the materials, the Supreme Court ordered the State Comptroller to cease the investigation.
This long preface was necessary to show how the graduates of the Wexner Foundation at Harvard actually assumed the right to disobey the decisions of the political leadership and pursue the policies they had been taught at Harvard, always in coordination with their Washington handlers.

The entire document, which is in Hebrew, consists of 54 pages and includes quotes and opinions from ministers and military commanders over the years. The document begins with a discussion about the possibility of a return to Gaza. If you remember, the opposition has been constantly asking Netanyahu about the government's strategy for Gaza and what it will do with the sector after the war.
So, allegedly, right-wing Naftali Bennett said back in 2014, during Operation Zuk Eitan, that he was “against full control over the Gaza Strip, but he would never say this publicly” to avoid alienating his electorate.
Gadi Eisenkot, who was the deputy chief of the General Staff at the time, became the chief later, said that "you don't need to be a great strategist to understand that this was a huge mistake." Eisenkot is now criticizing Netanyahu and claiming that this is all a lie. Benny Gantz, the Chief of the General Staff, considered the capture of the sector to be a "strategic mistake."
Defense Minister BukiYaalon and Shabak chief Yoram Cohen said that the IDF could carry out the task, but is it necessary? Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said: "In my opinion, no decision should be made."
According to him, he "doesn't know anyone in Israel who would support a return to military control over the sector." According to him, this option simply didn't exist.

In other words, this was the attitude of the army and the government back in 2014. With the outbreak of the 2023 war, Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot were slow to make government decisions, and the army began to act more decisively after their defiant exit from the government. However, despite the heroism of the soldiers and the enormous sacrifices, the army was essentially stagnating. And the entire public named above accused Netanyahu of not defeating Hamas in 2014 and tying the army's hands, and in the last two years he dragged out the war solely for his own political reasons, when it was possible to "exchange everyone for everyone" (250 hostages for all the terrorists in Israeli prisons), and end the war not "killing children in Gaza as a hobby," as Major General Yair Golan said, or "carrying out ethnic cleansing," as Lieutenant General BugiYa'alon put it.

Time passes, and Netanyahu asks whether Hamas will cease to exist if Israel eliminates its two leaders, Yahya Sinwar and Mohammed Daf. Shabak chief Nadav Argaman replies that Hamas will not cease to exist, but will be significantly weakened. Netanyahu suggests an elimination.

The head of military intelligence begins to dissuade him, as "it is unlikely that Hamas wants to start a war right now." Gadi Eisenkot, who is now the Chief of the General Staff, explains that the army has excellent intelligence, and every move of the leaders is being monitored, so there is no need to escalate the situation.
In 2016, Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz asked a reasonable question about the possibility of a security fence breach. He was shut down and told that it was impossible. He was a former philosopher and professor, while they were professionals. The likelihood of a security fence breach by small groups of terrorists was considered minimal and unlikely.

At a 2016 military cabinet meeting, Netanyahu once again raised the issue of military control over the Gaza Strip, only to face resistance from the army and Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman.

The press is reporting that Netanyahu is so pyromaniac that he is willing to start a new war for his own political goals and desire to remain in power. However, the new Chief of the General Staff, Aviv Kohavi, is strongly opposed to the elimination of Yahya Sinwar.

In March 2023, Netanyahu received the following "expert" opinion: "This regime is interested in maintaining the status quo. The only way to maintain the status quo is by providing various socio-economic benefits, and military deterrence alone is not sufficient."
Netanyahu says that there is clear stagnation on the Gaza Strip border, and something is happening there (this is July 31, 2023), but Ronen Bar, the director of the Shin Bet, suggests keeping calm and not provoking Hamas.

One month before the war, on September 7, 2023, the military says there is no point in investing additional funds in strengthening the border. On the eve of the autumn holidays, on September 10, the Prime Minister holds a meeting, and the military says that Hamas will only be staging its usual demonstrations along the border, and the IDF is ready for defense and attack.

The entire security system, all the generals, claimed that "Hamas is under control." However, at a cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said that now was the perfect time to strike against Hamas. There have been numerous instances where Hamas appeared to have no interest in fighting Israel, yet they still launched attacks.

Chief of the General Staff Gertz Ha-Levi responds: "I can imagine Sinwar's mindset. He is committed to avoiding war. Hamas believes that now is not the time to attack Israel." Ronen Bar, Director of the Shin Bet, supports this view, stating, "Right now, there is no reason for Sinwar to attack Israel." Defense Minister Yoav Galant adds, "Hamas has lost its capabilities."
It should be remembered that at that time, Israel was engaged in diplomatic negotiations to normalize relations with Saudi Arabia, and every step had to be carefully considered.

As it stands now, Saudi Arabia had no intention of normalizing relations with Israel. The Saudis were negotiating with the United States to legalize their nuclear program. According to Israeli sources, Saudi Arabia may have already acquired a nuclear bomb from Pakistan, and now it needed a "peaceful nuclear program" as a cover. This highlights the futility of any attempt to reach a nuclear deal with Iran without regime change. A bomb can always be purchased from North Korea in a few years, once the noise subsides.
In addition to the objective international events, there was a coup in Israel. The left-wing elites, frustrated once again by their defeat in the elections, attempted a coup d';tat with the help of the Biden administration and the EU.

Netanyahu and the right-wing government had to be overthrown at all costs. Ehud Barak, Israel's most failed prime minister, with his Napoleon complex, dreamed of "corpses floating down the Yarkon River." The captains of Israel's high-tech industry were rapidly withdrawing their capital to a bankrupt tech bank in California, anticipating the collapse of the country's economy. Wexner Foundation graduates called for defiance of the reserve-duty orders, and the wife of a high-ranking Shabak officer ShikmaBresler openly addressed Netanyahu on Twitter: “You will have no army or air force in September.”

As it turned out on October 7, 2023, the Prime Minister had neither an army nor an air force. Terrorists were shooting, raping, and kidnapping young people at a music festival, in kibbutzim, and in villages on the Gaza border, but there was no help. The pilots were afraid to open fire on the terrorists, and the army was stationed at the gates of the Be'eri kibbutz, refusing to enter without permission from the military prosecutor. The village's rapid response teams were disarmed. On the night of October 7, military posts were removed, and unarmed female observers were raped, killed, or taken captive. Asaf Shmulevich, a "spy from the south," obtained top-secret information and passed it on to a retired general, one of the leaders of the coup, Major General Yair Golan. His interference disrupted the operation to free the hostages from the Shifa Hospital.

Later, the head doctor of the Shifa hospital was taken prisoner and released under the pretext of "lack of space in the prison." At first, no one understood how this happened, as no one wanted to take responsibility. It turned out that the head terrorist was released on the orders of Ronen Bar, the director of the Shabak. Ronen Bar himself forged the protocol, adding on October 7 that he had ordered the Prime Minister to be informed. This was not true, as he made the decisions alone in order to "prevent war," but there was a "miscalculation." He had made a little mistake in his calculations.
Yes, and then 800 Nuhba terrorists' phones were stolen from the Shabak's guarded warehouse, and nothing and no one was found. And to make sure they weren't found, they're now demanding the resignation of the new Shabak director, David Zini.

Even if we assume that there was no direct collusion with the enemy, and that the only thing that happened was the blatant idiocy and lack of professionalism of the Wexner Foundation graduates, it becomes clear why Pete Hegset ended the Pentagon's collaboration with Harvard.
The esteemed institution was preparing a military and administrative elite for America and its friendly countries that would leave the legitimately elected government without an army at a critical moment and sabotage all its decisions. Hegset and Trump decided to cut off the octopus's tentacles.


===   2019 Moisey Kharitonov “General's Political Corps”

http://proza.ru/2019/05/24/1747(the text is in Russian, but there is an option to translate it into English; here are some quotes from my 2019 article)

According to Yossi Beilin, a political scientist at Tel Aviv University, the military elite has a significant influence on the decision-making process in Israel. This is due to the unresolved Arab-Israeli conflict, the high level of militarization, and the importance of ensuring the security of the country and its citizens. The military elite wields political influence as a pressure group on the government and the Knesset."

The prestige of military commanders in Israel is so high that they quickly rise to the top of the country's political elite upon retirement." The military elite serves as a “supplier” of personnel for the political elite (Yossi Beilin. Israel. A Concise Political History. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1992).
To gain some understanding of this phenomenon, I will use the list of military elite members who have joined the leadership ranks of the Israeli party-political bureaucracy since the mid-1960s, as presented in the book by this political scientist.
 
My "general's" conspiracy theory

To develop my hypothesis:
 
a) The Judeo-Christian West views the State of Israel and its population as expendable in a possible military inter-civilizational confrontation;

- I define a subsidiary hypothesis:
 
b) The training of Israel's political and military leaders in Western educational institutions is aimed at educating and preparing Israelis to effectively fulfill their role as expendable material.

In accordance with such expectations of the " West "(they rely on the allied assistance of the" West " to Israel and on the traditional conscious and subconscious counter-adaptation of the Jewish elite to the masters of the situation with the willingness to sacrifice the grassroots mass), to some extent, the Israeli education is also being built.
Just as it was in the Soviet Union and ended with the collapse of the country, in Israel, the development of abilities for the holistic vision of problem situations is not supported and, even, hindered. This slowdown is especially noticeable as Israelis' interests become more focused on the survival of the Israeli Jewish community in the context of growing inter-civilizational conflict.

In this context, the Israeli search for a life-saving maneuver threatens the selfish "Western" interests with two phenomena:

1. The need to increase the West's involvement in Israel's role as a far-reaching outpost in the non-Western world. The expected involvement is a greater presence of Western troops in defending Israel's territory, as well as a more extensive and timely evacuation of Israel's non-military population, if necessary.

2. a smaller-scale and shorter-time slowdown of the in-civilization rollback to the "West," and a smaller weakening of this rollback as it passes through Israeli territory.

It seems to me that the recent opposition's demarche against Prime Minister Netanyahu (it’s my text of 2019!) was a reflection of the flawed education of Israel's top military officers and political leaders. This flawed education is characterized by their ability to solve regional issues but their inability to understand the meta-strategic level of conflict, which is much higher than the regional level.

… As part of my hypothesis, I see that Netanyahu has been successfully maneuvering with global giants and many smaller states for many years, in order to prevent or weaken the disastrous threat to tiny Israel in the process of growing inter-civilizational confrontation (picture above the text – in 2019!).
 
Beni Ganz graduated from officer courses in 1979 and later held various positions, from platoon commander to company commander.
 
In 1982, he completed a Marine Corps course in the United States. During his service, Gantz earned a bachelor's degree from Tel Aviv University (in history) and a master's degree from the University of Haifa (in political science).
He also completed studies at the Command and Staff College and the National Security College of the Israel Defense Forces, as well as at the National Defense University (NDU) in the United States (in national resource management).

I have long noticed (this was a revelation to me, a new Israeli, but it is a well-known and understandable fact: allied interests are training the Israeli military) that the top commanders of the Israeli armed forces are apparently all trained in "Western" institutions.

I looked at the website of the English National Defense University. Develop students ' abilities to effectively coordinate the use of all branches of the armed forces, support services and available resources to counter a military enemy. Without claiming to be an expert, but as the owner of a Diploma from a British university and a Certificate in complex projects from London Business School, I dare to voice my confidence that the British train foreign military personnel wonderfully. The same thing (I am familiar with the practice of responsible work of some leading American universities) - when training Israeli command staff in America.

But, as far as I understand, the West is preparing the Israeli military for some delay in the foreign-civilizationattack when passing through Israeli territory. The military command staff prepared in this way is an excellent ADDITION to Netanyahu's efforts to bring the Israeli future into the zone of political maneuvering, with a secondary role of combat readiness. But, for the"West" maneuvering option means higher costs of its OWN manpower, the load of evacuees and ... less strong deceleration of the ino-civilization attack on the way to them. This "Western" interest should affect the development of the Israeli military's focus and motivation.

These considerations prompted a closer look at the educational background of the Israeli generals who had come to dominate the political leadership of the State.

I'll go through the list of political scientists from Tel Aviv University. I'll look at the characteristics of military manifestations, the position held in the political leadership, party cohesion, and ... EDUCATIONAL preparedness for working in the field of political maneuvering.
               
= YigaelYadin

To the characterization of military manifestations
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Party connectivity
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In the political leadership
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EDUCATIONAL background

... Yadin's scientific work has received widespread international recognition, and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and the French Academy of Sciences, an Honorary Doctor of Brandeis University and Dropsie University (USA), the University of Witwatersrand (South Africa), Hebrew Union College (USA), a Professor at Brown University (USA), and an Honorary Member of the British Society for Bible Studies, the American Bible Society, and the American Academy of Jewish Studies.

… In 1974, he served as a member of a commission investigating the causes of Israel's early failures during the Yom Kippur War.

= Moshe Dayan

To the characterization of military manifestations
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Party connectivity
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In the political leadership
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EDUCATIONAL background

… at the end of 1951, he completed a course of study at the School of Senior Officers of the British Army in Devizes, England, after which he was appointed operational commander of the Northern District. He then headed the Operations Department of the General Staff. …Based on Ben-Gurion's three-year defense program, Dayan oversaw a major reorganization of the Israeli army, which included the establishment of a military academy for officers with the rank of major and above. He also developed and organized a youth military training wing.

= Chaim Laskov

To the characterization of military manifestations
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Party cohesion and political leadership
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EDUCATIONAL background

...In 1953, Laskov decided to correct his youthful mistake and went to London to pursue higher education. He spent two years studying philosophy, political science, and economics at Oxford.

Upon his return to Israel, he was appointed Deputy Chief of the General Staff and Head of Military Intelligence.
After his retirement, he studied philosophy, economics, and political science in the United Kingdom. He also continued his military training.

... always had his own perspective on events. Understanding the "trend" has always been an important factor in the success of the IDF. Haim Laszkov was the one who provided this understanding to the Israeli army in the 1950s and 1970s. He insisted that IDF officers learn English (which improved the army's external relations and allowed them to read military literature in the original), re-trained thousands of civilians in related military professions, recognized the growing importance of tank forces, and most importantly, developed an effective military doctrine that helped Israel win the Six-Day War.

= Zvi Tzur

To the characterization of military manifestations
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Party connectivity
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In the political leadership
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EDUCATIONAL background

...In 1951, he enrolled in the Administrative Law Department at Syracuse University in New York, but was called back to serve in the Army.
In 1958 and 1960, he studied in Paris, where he played a central role in the intense Israeli-French military and technical cooperation.

= Yitzhak Rabin

To the characterization of military manifestations
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Party cohesion and political leadership
...

EDUCATIONAL background

He graduated from Kaduri Agricultural School (1940), where he met the future leader of Palmach, Yigal Alon.
He planned to study in California, but Yigal Alon refused to allow him to do so.
In June 1945, British forces carried out a special operation, resulting in his arrest and imprisonment. However, Yitzhak did not stay in prison for long. After five months, he was released. This event had a significant impact on his ability to study abroad. The British authorities in Palestine simply refused to grant such people permission to leave. ...

= Chaim Bar Lev

To the characterization of military manifestations
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Party cohesion and political leadership
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EDUCATIONAL background

...Graduated from the military academy in England. Studied economics and administrative sciences at Columbia University.


= D.Elazar

To the characterization of military manifestations
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Party connectivity
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In the political leadership
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EDUCATIONAL background

He studied economics and Middle Eastern history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

= Shimon Peres

To the characterization of military manifestations

Party connectivity
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In the political leadership
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EDUCATIONAL background

… while working as a full-time employee at the Israeli mission, he also studied at the New York University School of Social Research and the Harvard University School of Administrative Studies.

= P.Eitan

To the characterization of military manifestations
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Party connectivity
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In the political leadership
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EDUCATIONAL background

... Studied at the "Marinas" - the school of commanders and staff officers of the US Marine Corps...

= E. Weizmann

To the characterization of military manifestations
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Party connectivity
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In the political leadership
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EDUCATIONAL background

… was appointed Chief of Operations of the Air Force Headquarters. A year later, he was sent to study in England at the Military Staff College (Royal Air Force Air Command College).

= Ariel Sharon

To the characterization of military manifestations
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Party connectivity
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In the political leadership
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EDUCATIONAL background

… was sent to Camberley Military Academy (Great Britain) for a year, and after returning, he studied law at Tel Aviv University.
https://hist-etnol.livejournal.com/916394.html Questioner: This man received an excellent military and civilian education.
At the British Command and Staff College, he defended his dissertation "Intervention of the army command in tactical decisions on the battlefield: the experience of Great Britain and Germany". Through his work on this topic, Sharon became an expert on the works of Montgomery and Rommel…


= Ehud Barak

To the characterization of military manifestations
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EDUCATIONAL background

... graduated from the Special Forces Commanders course in France, and then studied at the Higher Military Academy of Israel and the Higher Military Academy of the United States.
Later, as an IDF officer, he graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with a bachelor's degree in physics and mathematics, and later from the Economics Department of Stanford University in California (master's degree in systems analysis).

==============         Conclusion

A brief overview of the personal and professional competencies of Israeli military leaders allows me to make the following assumptions.
 
1. The problem of political maneuvering in the context of a deadly threat from opposing global giants is fundamentally more complex than the problems of military strategies.

2. Educational preparation for the next Jewish catastrophe should be carried out using "Western" educational experience and institutions, but without being subordinate to their egocentric focus. The use of these experiences and institutions should be an effective SUBSYSTEM within the Israeli educational system.