A Putsch Against War

[Scurrilous]

Generals and secret police chiefs get together for an attack on the politicians.

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"In some countries, they arrest the president, occupy government offices and TV stations and annul the constitution. They then publish Communique No. 1, explaining the dire need to save the nation from perdition and promising democracy, elections etc.

In other countries, they do it more quietly. They just inform the elected leaders that, if they don’t desist from their disastrous policies, the officers will make their views public and precipitate their downfall.

Such officers are generally called a “junta”, the Spanish word for “committee” used by South American generals. Their method is usually called a “putsch”, a German-Swiss term for a sudden blow. (Yes, the Swiss actually had revolts some 170 years ago).

What almost all such coups have in common is that their instigators thrive on the demagoguery of war. The politicians are invariably accused of cowardice in face of the enemy, failure to defend national honor, and such.

Not in Israel. In our country we are now seeing a kind of verbal uprising against the elected politicians by a group of current and former army generals, foreign intelligence and internal security chiefs. All of them condemn the government’s threat to start a war against Iran, and some of them condemn the government’s failure to negotiate with the Palestinians for peace.

Only in Israel."

http://www.avnery-news.co.il/english/index.html

[oberliner]

1. Link doesn't work

The "hidden link" in this case is meant to go to Uri Avnery's channel, but it isn't working.

[azurnoir]

2. works just fine now n/t

[oberliner]

3. Yes, I believe that was the "unexplained edit"

And not even a thank you!

[azurnoir]

4. Thank you for what? both comments have same time stamp however

do you have any thoughts on Avnery's piece?

[oberliner]

5. Alerting the poster that the link didn't work

It's published at antiwar.com as well.

That should tell you everything you need to know.

[azurnoir]

6. well my point was that identical time stamps would indicate the poster had already made the edit

to correct the link moments prior to your comment , and I do not equate Gush Shalom to antiwar.com but this si not the first time I've seen an author condemned(?) on grounds of who reprinted his article