When the Warning Comes from the General Moshe Ya’alon, Jewish Supremacy, and the Echo Nobody Wanted to Hear

History has a cruel sense of irony.

Sometimes the most devastating indictments do not come from the oppressed, the bombed, the buried, or the silenced—but from the very architects of power who once swore they were different.

This week, that indictment came from Moshe Ya’alon: former Israeli Defense Minister, former IDF Chief of Staff, lifelong pillar of Israel’s security establishment. Not a dissident poet. Not a radical academic. Not a Palestinian survivor.

A general.

And what he said shattered the last polite illusion.

“The ideology of Jewish supremacy that has become dominant in the Israeli government is reminiscent of Nazi race theory.”

Pause there. Sit with it.

This was not shouted at a protest. It was not scribbled on a placard. It was written calmly, deliberately, after attending a Holocaust Remembrance ceremony—then reading reports of Jewish settlers attacking Palestinians, blocking ambulances, fracturing skulls, burning homes.

Never Again, apparently, now comes with footnotes.

“You Can’t Compare!” — The Last Refuge of Moral Cowardice

Every time the comparison arises, the reflex is instant:

You can’t compare.
This is different.
This is complex.
This cheapens the Holocaust.

But Ya’alon did not compare gas chambers to checkpoints.
He compared ideology to ideology.
Supremacy to supremacy.
Dehumanization to dehumanization.

And that is precisely what terrifies people.

Because once you strip away uniforms, flags, and trauma exemptions, what remains is an old, ugly idea with a new passport:

One people are inherently superior.
Another exists to be controlled, displaced, disciplined, or erased.

That idea did not die in 1945.
It just learned better public relations.

The Ghost of Leibowitz Was Right

Ya’alon’s confession cuts deeper than the headline.

He admits something far more dangerous:

That Yeshayahu Leibowitz, the Israeli philosopher long dismissed as hysterical and extreme, was right all along.

Leibowitz warned that permanent occupation would turn Jews into what he chillingly called “Judeo-Nazis.” Ya’alon once rejected that warning. He believed the system could remain “moral.” He believed power could be exercised humanely.

Decades later, he writes:

“As things are today, Leibowitz was right. And I was wrong.”

That sentence is not an opinion.
It is an autopsy report.

Pogroms with Better Branding

Let’s be clear about the facts Ya’alon referenced—facts the world keeps calling “allegations”:

Armed Jewish settlers attacking Palestinian communities
Livestock stolen, homes burned
Ambulances delayed by settlers
Palestinians hospitalized with fractured skulls
Soldiers present, watching—or protecting the attackers

If Palestinians did this, it would be called terrorism.
If Europeans did this, it would be called fascism.
If Russians did this, it would dominate headlines for months.

But when Jews do it to Palestinians under Israeli rule?

It becomes “complex security dynamics.”

Language, like morality, is selectively applied.

Holocaust Memory as a Shield, Not a Warning

Here is the most obscene twist of all:

Holocaust memory—once a universal warning against supremacy—has been weaponized into a moral forcefield.

Not to prevent atrocity.
But to excuse it.

Not to protect the vulnerable.
But to silence comparison.

Ya’alon did not desecrate Holocaust memory.
He honored it—by refusing to turn it into a blank cheque for cruelty.

And that is precisely why his words are intolerable to the political class.

When Generals Start Sounding Like Whistleblowers

This is not the language of Hamas.
Not the rhetoric of NGOs.
Not the exaggeration of activists.

This is the voice of a man who ran the army and still couldn’t stop what it became.

When former defense ministers start warning of moral collapse, it is already too late to ask whether the warning is “fair.”

The only honest question left is:

How much further will this go before the word “resemblance” is replaced with “recognition”?

The Final Collapse Is Not Military — It’s Moral

Israel does not suffer from a lack of weapons.
It suffers from a surplus of impunity.

And the world does not lack information.
It lacks courage.

Moshe Ya’alon did not betray Israel.
He documented its transformation.

History is not confused.
History is keeping receipts.

And this time, the indictment is being written from the inside.

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