It took only half a year for the Israel Defense Forces chief of staff to morph from the right wing's darling into someone guilty of "a rebellion and attempted military coup fit for a banana republic in Central America in the 1970s" (as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's son/mouthpiece hinted on social media).

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