Screaming soldiers and open revolt: How a video of Israel's internal power struggle has exposed

An apparently strange choice was made by a correspondent for Israel's channel 12 when he decided on April 22nd to publish one of the most humiliating videos of a relatively large number of Israeli soldiers who are attacked by a single Palestinian fighter.

When the soldiers stumbled the stairs of a building in Khan Yunis, the southern Gaza, chaos broke out: some fell on top of each other, others hid behind a concrete wall and some even fired irregularly and endangered their own colleagues.

This raises the question: In view of the frequent compliance with Israeli media for strict, often inappropriate military censorship, the decision motivated the decision to release such a harmful presentation of their own soldiers?

The answer is in the open war between the Israeli political institution, represented by the leadership of the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the one hand and the rest of the country on the other.

The “rest of the country” seems to be a difficult to understand concept, but not. Netanyahu is currently in the war with the military facility, the internal secret service agency Shin Bet, the judiciary, the majority of the media and the majority of Israelis, which want the war and the Israeli prisoners to be released.

This explains the unprecedented and open criticism of former Israeli civil servants who accuse Netanyahu of being a danger, not only the Israeli military and Israeli society, but also the future of Israel itself.

On April 21, the head of the Shin Bet, Ronen Bar, crossed every protocol when he presented the Supreme Court of Israel with two documents, one of which was unveiled of the public.

According to Israeli media, Bar said in the non -classified affidavit that he was released “because of his refusal to meet these expectations of loyalty”, in particular “in relation to the areas of the Prime Minister” and “to avoid his refusal to avoid Netanyahu in his crime procedure”.

The comments from Bar were not only a fundamental historical change, as Israel's power players treat extremely sensitive security questions, but also essentially a call to fall from Netanyahu.

The former head of Shin -bet, Nadav Argaman, was just as loud, although he was the first to talk about the violations of Netanyahu, which indicates clear coordination between the various elements of the notorious and powerful intelligence of Israel.

“If the prime minister acts illegally, I will say everything I know,” he told Israel's channel 12 last month.

The coordination runs deeper because the former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who is sought together with Netanyahu by the International Criminal Court, begins on April 23 on his own killing spree.

Apart from the direct attacks on Netanyahu, which described his politics as “moral shame”, he seems to reduce the Israeli military himself, and reveals that Israel took pictures of a suspected Hamas tunnel in August last August to prevent an armor contract.

The Israeli government used this specific episode as the basis for maintaining control over the Philadelphi corridor in southern Gaza, a justification that was created at about the same time as the deeply embarrassing video of Israeli soldiers, who ran out of a lonely battles. The layers of humiliation continued to collect.

While Gallant's actions can discredit the military and his own leadership, his main goal Netanyahu seems to influence, which many Israelis consider to be extended by the Gaza Council against personal political profits.

The actual losses of war of Israel are another important point. One of the historically best secret secrets of Israel are his losses in the war against Arab armies or resistance. His victims in the current war against Gaza should also be a well -kept secret, except that this is not the case.

Although the Israeli army has tried to minimize its number of fatalities since the beginning of the war on October 7, 2023, it has exposed many leaks to some of the military itself. The goal? Netanyahu put pressure on the war, especially in view of new information, that at least half of Israel's military reserves refuse to return to the battlefield.

Interestingly, it was Eyal Zamir, Netanyahus hand -picked replacement for Herzi Halevi, the former chief of staff, who surprised everyone in a speech shortly after his appointment last February. Zamir revealed that 5,942 Israeli families “had joined the list of survivor families in 2024”.

Zamir, who had already committed that “2025 will be a war”, now seems to be less inclined to escalate the war beyond Israel's ability to maintain it.

The war between Israel's political, military and secret service elites has never been so ugly, let alone open as if both sides had drawn the conclusion that their survival – and the survival of Israel himself – depends on defeating the other camp.

After some reluctance and a relatively careful choice of words, Gallant has now joined the choir of a powerful group of ex-offices who want to see Netanyahu from power with all the necessary means, including civil disobedience.

This internal conflict between Israel's elite marks a departure from its long -cultivated picture. For decades, Israel presented itself as a fire of democracy and civilization in the middle of what it was as less cultivated neighbors. However, the genocide in the Gaza destroyed this fake story.

As a result, the current struggles among the architects of this Israeli imagination now offer an unprecedented opportunity to uncover deeper truths.