Besides Rabin being suckered into that land for peace hoola oopla what else did he do wrong ? Why was he such a bad general ?
He was the general that carried out the attack on the Altalena where 15 (?) Jews were killed.
"They sank the Altalena and gunned down the survivors as they tried to swim to shore, killing at least 15. Ben-Gurion later declared:
"Blessed be the cannon that sank the Altalena."
For most Israelis, the Altalena episode represents a dark, shameful chapter in Zionist history, in which
the left used violence against fellow-Jews for the sake of gaining political advantage. But for many Israelis on the left, such as Baruch Kimmerling, the Altalena is a symbol of how to deal with the Jewish right."
http://www.afsi.org/OUTPOST/95DEC/dec1.htm Altalena was not about mamlachtiut. Altalena was a military coup against the heroes who made the birth of Israel possible.