douglas mccarthy -- >> surely the civilian control has some limits. if the civilian government violates the constitution, basic human rights, takes the country to a place that essentially upends the constitutional order then the military has the right to stand up and say that, and from what i hear, not only the israeli and the ibf, saying wait a minute to the government, you are putting personal and political issues ahead of the national interests and ahead of the values on which israel was founded. >> i don't think any generals were fired in israel, but rather a politician that tried to arctic late the military's point of view was fired. >> the defense minister. >> and here with the issue of gays in the military, or other issues in the military, you don't have the secretary of defense getting fired for articulating the general's position. >> let me ask a question related to this. bernie sanders appears to have decided that he would like to amend the democratic military platform to change the language on israel. what's going on there? >> the democrati

democracy, a military staying away from politics, it's what obama asserted with mcchrystal and with douglas mccarthy>> what i think the generals would argue is the behavior of these politician crosses a line where it threatens israeli democracy itself, right, peter? >> what's fascinating is that the most powerful opposition to benjamin netanyahu, is on the military establishment on iran and very strong statements of former leaders and heads of internal and external security service about the path that israel is going down. what makes the problem complicated when you talk about the military's role in a democracy, is that for 49 years now israel has been holding a territory which is not a democracy, because the vast majority of people in the west bank cannot vote, are not citizens of the states that controls their lives. the new defense minister himself lives in a settlement. he does not live in a democracy, and i think this is the sense of fear, the erosion, in a way it's almost a parallel to what you're seeing in the republican party. the likud was a conservative party that had a parliamentary indiv