Amiram Levin

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Amiram Levin
Amiram Levin in 2017
Native name
עמירם לוין
Born (1946-07-07) July 7, 1946 (age 77)
Lehavot HaBashan, Mandatory Palestine
Allegiance Israel
Years of service1965–1998
RankAluf (major general)
Battles/wars

Amiram Levin (

Major General) of the Israel Defense Forces
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Military career

Amiram Levin served in Sayeret Matkal and rose to become its commander. He was commander of the IDF Northern Command. He was severely wounded in the Yom Kippur War.[1] Levin served as deputy chief of the Mossad.[2]

Business career

Levin was director and chairman of the National Roads Company of Israel until 2006.[3]

Views and opinions

Levin's views on the Palestinian conflict have varied through the years.

According to an

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A leading figure on the Israeli left and member of the

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He also espouses the view that the

throwing stones to influence world opinion.[10]

In 2023 however, Levin made headlines for speaking at a protest against proposed judicial reforms. At an interview a day later, he compared Israel to Nazi Germany and said "there is apartheid in Judea and Samaria, the IDF has started being complicit in war crimes, they stand on the sidelines and watch the hilltop youth terrorize the Palestinians and do nothing. The IDF has rotted from the core." He later added "there hasn't been democracy in Judea and Samaria in 57 years. These people (referring to the settlers) do not know what democracy is. They are now rotting the Israeli society from within. These parties (referring to Jewish Power, Religious Zionism, and Noam) now have a majority in Parliament and Netanyahu is responsible for giving them power. He gave the keys to criminals who never served in the IDF, people that in a functioning country would have been behind bars are now in charge of the police." The interviewer then quoted an infamous speech made by former military general Yair Golan who compared Israel to Nazi Germany and asked Levin if he agreed with his statements. "Of course", Levin replied, "walk around Hebron and you will see streets where Palestinians aren't allowed to be in. It hurts to say this but that's the reality. Better to accept it than to ignore that it is happening".[11]

References

  1. ^ Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu, Anshel Pfeffer
  2. ^ IDF Maj. Gen. (ret.) Amiram Levin to Ynet: This is the time to demand international recognition of Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights
  3. ^ No chairman, directors for National Roads Co.
  4. ^ Jonathan Cook, “The Lab”: Israel Tests Weapons, Tactics on Captive Palestinian Population,' Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, 12 August 2013, pp 16-17.
  5. ^ Jonathan Ofir, 'New poll shows 2/3 of Jewish Israelis want death penalty for Palestinian attackers,' Mondoweiss 3 August 2017
  6. ^ Jonathan Ofir, 'The murder, the error, and the terror (an introduction to Israeli Newspeak),' Mondoweiss 14 April 2016
  7. ^ a b Jonathan Ofir,'Liberal Israeli icon calls to raze Gaza neighborhoods,' Mondoweiss 13 May 2023.
  8. Times of Israel
    13 December 2017
  9. ^ 'Former IDF General and Key Israeli Labor Party Figure: We Were Too Good in 1967, Palestinians Deserved Occupation,' Haaretz 13 December 2017
  10. ^ Amiram Levin, 'The Palestinians' Child Soldiers Are Their Most Dangerous Threat,' Haaretz, 24 June 2018: "The hasbara war is war. It requires a strategy and a sustained, effective and powerful offensive."
  11. ^ Golan, Arya (13 August 2023). "Former IDF commander of the Northern Command: "There is apartheid in Judea and Samaria, the IDF is beginning to be complicit in war crimes. Just like what happened in Germany"". Kan 11 (in Hebrew).


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