Meet the Anonymous IDF Source for Left-Leaning News: Maj. Gen. Roni Numa

Numa’s earlier fiasco took place in early August, when he was the anonymous IDF source who leaked to the media about “Jewish terrorists” who allegedly burned down a home in Duma village. No arrests have been made.

By JEWISH PRESS

Roni Numa receiving his appointment as Major General from former COS Benny Ganz

Roni Numa receiving his appointment as Major General from former COS Benny Ganz

On Wednesday, Ha’aretz and Ynet reported that Israel’s security apparatus had formulated a range of benefits for the Palestinian Authority which include providing additional weapons to the PA security services, and the release of Arab security prisoners, many of whom have been behind bars for decades. The reports named no official source for this information.

It was a shocking story, which smacked of the failed policies of so many past Israeli governments, including, until very recently, Benjamin Netanyahu’s 4th term at the helm. And so the story reverberated for an overnight throughout the Israeli media, until Netanyahu’s office came out with a denial of the story stating clearly that there would be no transferring of weapons to the PA and no prisoner release. As to issuing new construction permits to PA Arabs, those had been conditioned by Netanyahu in his meeting with Secretary of State Kerry on approval for new construction in the Jewish settlements block.

MK Bezalel Smotrich (Bayit Yehudi) on Thursday Morning exposed the anonymous IDF source that had fed Ha’aretz the false and embarrassing information which made both the Army and the Prime Minister appear like the sons of Pollyanna:

“So that officer who gave the briefing yesterday in Ynet about the IDF recommendations to the political leadership, to give the Arabs more weapons and to release terrorists is GOC Central Command Roni Numa.

“It’s my understanding that he was reprimanded by the Chief of Staff for publicizing those things, as well as by the Prime Minister. Practically speaking, the very fact that this is the worldview of a command chief and that he was reprimanded for publicizing it, not for harboring it, is very disturbing.”

Maj. Gen. Roni Numa was the first major appointment made by incoming Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot. Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon wanted Commander of the Northern Division Maj. Gen. Noam Tibon for the position, which had been approved by outgoing Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz. But Eisenkot and Tibon don’t get along, so the latter retired, after 30 years of service.

Since his appointment, mostly because his area of command has been the most incendiary since the end of the Gaza War of 2014, Maj. Gen. Numa has been the darling of the left-leaning media in Israel, and has been known to offer information from a “senior IDF source who spoke on condition of anonymity.”

Though it sometimes appears the “information” turns out to be stuff Numa would like to see happening, rather than actual reality.

His earlier, memorable fiasco took place in early August, when he was the unnamed IDF source who reassured the media the army knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that it was “Jewish terrorists” who allegedly burned down a home in Duma village near Hebron and killed an Arab baby and both his parents.

According to Hakol Hayehudi, Numa let out that particular goose—and there have still been no arrests in the case, other than the administrative detention of some right-wing bloggers—at a cocktail party celebrating the new Jewish year. Furthermore, he told it to reporters while there was an official gag order on the investigation.

Shortly after that toast, the first victim of the new intifada was murdered, and since then Numa and his command staff have been responsible for the slowest reaction in military history to a wave of attacks on civilians by Arabs with Sudden Jihad Syndrome. A wave of terror that probably could have been quashed in a couple of days by imposing a cooling down curfew on Arab towns and villages, was allowed instead to spiral into a popular movement of crazed youths.

Numa’s first actual “contribution” to the 3-month, bloody fiasco,was to change the rules of engagement—right around the time he was raising that toast for the new year and arresting imaginary Jewish terrorists. He was directly responsible for forcing IDF soldiers into those despicable scenes where they were attacked by well organized, violent mobs of civilians, and were too afraid of facing a martial court to defend themselves.

In September, after those rules proved to be a dangerous failure, Netanyahu ordered the security cabinet to re-examine Numa’s decision, which they did, and the rules of engagement were revised.

Numa has a stellar history in the IDF and in the IDF’s Special Forces, however, the left-wing spirit that permeates much of the senior staff’s thinking has apparently infected him as well, or he’s channeling Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon.

Postscript:

On Rotter.net it is being reported that Brigade and Division commanders in Judea and Samaria as well as in the relevant Intelligence units, all who serve under Numa, are opposed to Numa’s recommendations, and that Numa’s recommendations primarily represent those of the Civil Administration, according to an unnamed senior IDF source.

November 26, 2015 | 6 Comments »

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  1. No need for a polygraph test. But one far more extensive may come handy to crush the whole infested “command” filth wide open. Those people must face court martial.
    Mrs. Caroline Glick nailed the scum. I must say that I am shocked that she came out that far.
    The arson against a Muslim family fabricated story intentionally made to justify the gruesome garbage in uniform assaulting innocent Jews and the latest several “leaks” are pinned on the same unJews.
    The people must know who are those that joined the anti-Semite creep on his reported toast. (See report by Mrs. Caroline Glick).

  2. @ NormanF:
    As expected from that element, denials and promises.
    Simple solution. Polygraph test by an independent, non Israeli specialized outfit. Now.

  3. No truth to reports that IDF sought to arm Palestinian Authority: sources
    DEBKAfile November 25, 2015, 11:15 PM (IDT)
    DEBKAfile’s defense and political sources reported on Wednesday that there is no truth to media reports that the IDF recommended a series of concessions to the Palestinians, including permits for weapons, ammunition and bullet-resistant vehicles. In fact, those reports are contrary to the IDF’s position for a complete lockdown on East Jerusalem and Palestinian cities in the West Bank, as DEBKAfile reported on November 23. The current offer, including a series of incentives such as the supply of weapons and ammunitions to Palestinian policement on the condition that they take action to reduce tensions and completely stop the wave of terror, was submitted to Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon by Gen. Yoav Mordechai, the IDF’s coordinator of activites in the territories.

  4. Roni Numa – the Jewish subhuman trash appears to be the source behind the reports to “normalize” Arab lives and to bolster the PA.

    His policy is to reward blood-thirsty Arabs who are murdering Jews in cold blood with proposed concessions of land, guns and released terrorists.

    Numa’s goal is not to stop the Arab pogrom or to defend the Jewish State from its enemies but the exact opposite.

    No wonder Israel’s leftist media adores him.

  5. A typical Oslo general. Monumental piece of yentz.
    Credits due. He was selected by ya’alon and Netanyahu…
    Now.
    Can anyone elaborate for us why should any sane conscript ever want to serve under that “commander”? And thew corresponding command hierarchy? Further. Anyone that believes that ole Numa is the only one with that inclination, better reconsider. The command rank leads only promote that kind of scum.
    The item FIRST arms the enemy and then orders our children to fight them… with rubber bullets, paint balls and or firing in the air.
    Nowhere else one would find such scrap piece in command.