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Omar Adam is a genius. Not because of the excellent music, the perfect public relations mechanism and the big shots that he sips from the good life. Omar Adam is a genius, because he understood what the nervous parents this morning still didn't understand - that the frontline command is not functioning.
Adam insisted yesterday to continue rehearsing for his show in Yarkon Park, which was canceled Because of the guidelines on gatherings, which made many in the music industry think that he was crazy. But how do you say? He will count the money on the stairs on Thursday, and the parents, who will not go to work today, or will pay for the babysitter because she has no idea that she needs Open the garden, they will eat the heart.
Tonight's crazy farce is exactly in line with the partisan manner in which the Home Front Command has been operating since October 7th, and if we're being honest, much earlier as well. "Homeland", for those who didn't understand the name, is civilians. And those who are supposed to take care of the citizens, need to include all the complex parameters involved in this very important role, such as, for example, announcing the opening of the kindergartens when the parents are awake. Or, alternatively, close the workplaces at the same time as closing the summer camps and kindergartens.
And if you are forced from above to issue the announcement after midnight, then it is advisable not to do it in the middle of nowhere, as if it were a classified state secret, and to silence it on the Home Front Command website, but to make a supreme effort to inform the heads of the authorities, so that they do not wake up at half past six in the morning and discover that they have to activate the education system. None of them slept with their shoes on.
The failed handling of the incident is causing unnecessary chaos today. Kindergartens, as mentioned, are sleeping, the authorities entered Amok to open the frameworks, the parents, who announced at work that they were staying at home, canceled meetings and lost money, have to wake up a nervous child who went to sleep on holiday and got up for kindergarten. Instead, everyone could be put on standby. This is also a possibility.
If it was a one-off event, let's say. But one should not strain the memory too much, in order to extract from it the images of the horror in the writers, at the beginning of the war. On the 9th of October, the Home Front Command issued a particularly stressful message, that one should stock up on dry food, water, a radio receiver, a first aid kit, a backup battery for a cell phone, equipment for babies, medicine and batteries, and prepare for the 72 hours he was in the hospital.
The public attacked the shelves and emptied them in a panic of the end of the world. The situation was so serious that the marketing chains limited the purchase of batteries and water. In less than 24 hours, the frontline command withdrew from the extreme directive and tried to put out the fire with their own hands. No one believed the reassuring messages of Daniel Hagari, that there is no need to blow up the MMD with water and there is a high probability that we will be alive tomorrow morning.
Since that fiasco, it seemed that they realized that they had made a mistake, and the instructions to the public were moderate, fixed. In every panel and radio broadcast, a calm explainer appeared, with ice in his veins, to lower the anxiety level. Then suddenly they all disappeared. The war in the south continued, in the north they bombed, but apart from Hagari's statements here and there, we didn't see the faces we had gotten used to for four months, as if we were normal.
After the assassination in Damascus, when the talks began about an appropriate Iranian response against Israel, it was expected that the angels in uniform would return to us, with clear messages on what to equip, what to do, and how. But out of fear of repeating past mistakes, those in charge of the rear went into the bunker and let Major Shaumati work in their place. And he gave an unbelievable job.
People bought generators for thousands of shekels to be prepared for an emergency scenario, installed landline phones, moved to sleep in the MMD, close to the radio on the batteries. Rumors about a campaign by the Home Front Command that was filmed, conducted and found in the barrel, but not released from the fear of spreading panic, spread at the same time, and amplified it In the square. Then, at eight in the evening, when the drones were already on their way to us, Hagari went up and spoke to the public.
have you come now? When those who obeyed the instructions, and were not properly prepared for what might have developed from the Iranian attack, could no longer do anything? The highlight was yesterday when I interviewed one of Gerry's very nice explainers. He opened with a fiery speech, about why it is forbidden to listen to rumors, which do tremendous damage, but only to the official instructions. You encouraged these rumors when you did not give proper instructions, so now you are coming to the public with claims?
May you all be Omar Adam. Do what you understand, because you can't trust anyone in this country. Also for those who are supposed to understand and manage the home front. Even when it comes to treating civilians, they somehow end up at the end of the line.