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📰 Zamir Calls Out the Army’s Moral Rot — and the War Politics Beneath It IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir publicly condemned what he called an erosion of values inside the army, including looting, vandalism, and unauthorized political and messianic patches worn on uniforms. He said the pattern was serious enough to amount to “a rebellion against IDF values,” and he moved to tighten enforcement through the military prosecution system. That is not just a disciplinary speech. It is a rare admission from the top of the military that the war has produced not only operational strain, but also a corruption of norms that the army itself can no longer keep pretending is marginal. The timing matters because the worst examples are not abstract. Zamir singled out the desecration of a statue of Jesus in southern Lebanon and cited Haaretz reporting on widespread looting there, which suggests the problem has gone from rumor to public scandal and from scandal to command-level embarrassment. This is also a political moment. Once the army chief starts talking like a school principal cleaning up after a mob, it means the old story of a disciplined, morally superior force is getting harder to sell — especially when the evidence is being documented by soldiers, journalists, and the army’s own images. So Zamir’s message is simple: if the IDF wants to keep calling itself the army of the state, it has to stop behaving like a force that thinks the rules apply only to other people. #Israel#IDF#Zamir#Lebanon#Haaretz#militarydiscipline 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸