As the public continues to demand answers over the failures of the October 7 massacre, the man who bore the most direct responsibility for the failure, former Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, is helping develop a new political leadership program in cooperation with Reichman University aimed at training the “next generation” of leaders, Kan News reported on Thursday.
The report aroused the fury of bereaved families of the October 7 victims, especially since Bar, who presided over the worst intelligence failure in Israeli history, did his best to hide the fact that he failed to take the proper precautionary measures the night before the massacre, including notifying the political leadership, despite receiving numerous warnings about red flags in Gaza. Bar also refused to leave his position even after he was dismissed by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, a stance supported by his leftist friends, Attorney General Gali Baharav Miara, and the justices of the Supreme Court.
Bereaved father Itzik Bontzel, whose son fell in battle in the Gaza Strip, published a particularly scathing open letter addressed to Bar.
In the letter, Bontzel recounts a past meeting with Bar: “I sat with you in your office while you were still trying to sell mewith rehearsed platitudesthat you had ‘taken responsibility.’ Already then, I realized you have no G-d. I realized you don’t see blood; you only see your next positionthe dirty path to clearing your conscience at the expense of our children’s graves.”
“While we languish in cemeteries, you’re already building your next ‘exit.’ While our sons’ blood still boils in the earth, you have the diabolical audacity to establish a school for political leadership. You, who abandoned an entire nation to slaughter, rape, and destructiondare to educate?”
“What doctrine will you instill in them? How to sleep on guard duty while the enemy is at the gates? How to turn the blood of heroes into a career springboard?”
“We won’t remain silent. We won’t let your word games turn our disaster into a ‘curriculum.’ As long as I live, I will be there to remind every student and every institution that gives you a platform, ‘This teacher is the man who abandoned thousands of Jews to die.'”
He signed the letter: “Itzik Bontzel, father of Amit Bontzel, H’yda Gibor Yisrael who was killed because of your failure.”
Shelly, the mother of Libi Cohen-Meguri, H’yd, who was murdered in the Nova festival massacre, responded to the report by stating, “Do you understand how absurd this is? Here is lesson number one in leadership: anyone who had their hands on the wheel on October 7 will not teach us anything about leadership.
(YWN Israel DeskJerusalem)
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Zionism at its best. Wake up and smell the “mud” coffee.
The leadership from the Supreme Court down to the leftist army elite are all corrupt. They hate religious Jews be they Chareidim or dati Leumi. They treat them like dogs in the army. Thats why they have one goal. To turn the religious Jew into an atheist and make him an Israeli not a Jew. They want to destroy the religious youth. They want to mix them into the army with gays,girls,trans and atheists. They know 18 year old kids will be influenced easy. And those who are strong minded they send them into buildings with terrorists to face possible death or become wounded. They have it all worked out. They know a married father with several kids gets killed then who will keep the kids from going off the derech. We must fight back. Forty per cent of Tel Aviv is gay. The average family has maybe one kid and one dog. This is their culture. Tattoo shops and pork stores. Public shabbos violated. And we sit by and do nothing. Wake up. We must expand and support those teaching Torah on a national level.