Israel, Jewish civil rights and privatization by Caroline Glick

...Alon's claims deserve scrutiny because they expose just how deeply his political views impede his ability to understand and competently perform his duties. Alon disclosed that the Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements is the group behind the riots and the attacks on Israeli civilians and military forces. The group, he revealed, is bankrolled by the Palestinian Authority.

Caroline Glick..
CarolineGlick.com..
21 June '13..

OC Central Command Maj.-Gen. Nitzan Alon has done it again. You may recall that Alon was the "senior military official," who as commander of the Judea and Samaria Division blamed the massacre of the Fogel family in March 2011 on undefined acts of vandalism in Arab villages allegedly carried out by Israelis.

He also told The New York Times that he disagreed with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's view that Hamas's takeover of Gaza following Israel's withdrawal demonstrated that a unilateral withdrawal from Judea and Samaria would be reckless in the extreme.

Over the past four months Alon has been criticized for his refusal to take actions to end the massive proliferation of terror attacks against Jews in Judea and Samaria. For months Alon ordered IDF soldiers to stand down as Palestinians hurled rocks and firebombs at them and at civilians. He set rules of engagement that are so restrictive that soldiers are better off running away from Palestinian mobs than defending themselves and Israeli civilians.

After Adele Biton, a three-year-old girl, was critically wounded when her mother's car was stoned, and as online videos proliferated of IDF soldiers fleeing from assaults, and of Israeli civilians being beaten and assaulted on the roads with firebombs, rocks and bullets, the media finally began reporting on the terror surge. Public pressure mounted for Alon to finally take action or be fired from his post.

You might think that given public scrutiny of his failures Alon would keep a low profile. But he hasn't.

On Tuesday he spoke to a group of foreign journalists and diplomats and said that in his "professional" opinion, if we don't start negotiations with the Palestinians soon, we are likely to see an escalation of Palestinian terrorism against Israelis.

Alon's claims deserve scrutiny because they expose just how deeply his political views impede his ability to understand and competently perform his duties. Alon disclosed that the Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements is the group behind the riots and the attacks on Israeli civilians and military forces. The group, he revealed, is bankrolled by the Palestinian Authority.

According to Alon, out of respect for US Secretary of State John Kerry's attempts to renew peace talks, the PA suspended the group's funding. He explained that this PA decision has led to a steep drop in terror attacks.

Alon said that the PA has kept its funding cutoff - like the funding itself - secret. He attributed the PA's silence to its leaders' modesty and moderation.

In his words, "They weren't looking for diplomatic recognition for the move but rather for the territory to quiet down."

Alon also mentioned that PA security forces are involved in stone and firebomb attacks on Israelis.

Glick - Responding to a hit job in the Huff Post

Major General
Nitzan Alon

Caroline Glick..
carolineglick.com..
06 February '12..



I have received a couple of inquiries about a hit job on me published in the Huffington Post blog by two ex-US military officers and current DC consultants named Steven White and P.J. Dermer. I'd never heard of the pair before their foray into character assassination against me, but it's not difficult to find their footprints on the web.

For instance, I found an article in Foreign Policy where the two argued in an excruciatingly badly-written, jargon-laden piece that the US should respond to Obama's failure to produce Palestinian-Israeli peace by increasing support for Mahmoud Abbas; putting more pressure on Israel (their euphemism for this is "forg[ing] forward however painful and difficult" in the "peace process" notwithstanding apparent lack of Palestinian interest in peace); and by giving more power to the United States Security Coordinator to Israel and the Palestinian Authority (USSC), which the authors describe as "the good news story over the past two administrations."

It might seem a little anomalous to label the USSC a success story. The USSC trains former and future terrorist Palestinian Authority armed forces. Its most notable achievement to date was training the Palestinian Authority's armed forces into surrendering control of Gaza to Hamas in 2007. Notably, the US-trained forces surrendered just a month after the USSC assured the US Congress that the PA army could easily defeat Hamas.