Monday, May 16, 2011

Yesterday's Attack From Syria Was A Blessing--Just Like The Second Lebanon War

Dr. Aaron Lerner writes that yesterday's infiltration from Syria was a real blessing for Israel:
Israel lucky Majdal Shams was invaded today

Just as Israel was blessed by the fortuitous Second Lebanon War, we have been blessed today by the infiltration of the border near the Golan Druse village of Majdal Shams today.


It is the nature of the Israeli psyche that all the arguing in the world would not have convinced the Israeli brass and ex-brass now politicians that change was needed in the IDF.

This is, after all, a society where the common excuse for ignoring safety rules is that “nothing happened” even though the rules were violated.

So if not for the Second Lebanon War the IDF would today be only a shadow of itself in terms of critical ground force capabilities (tanks and other forces were being slashed), training (units didn’t know how to operate their weapons or had next to no ongoing experience using them) and battle operations (the emphasis on evacuating wounded not only hampered the
missions – it turned out making evacuation harder).

And if today ended with only what transpired in the Gaza Strip and Lebanese border, there is every reasons to believe that the IDF would not be ready for what may come this Fall...
I hope there is this silver lining Dr. Lerner sees.
Now if only Israel learned its lessons from the battleground of diplomacy as well.

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1 comment:

NormanF said...

Will Israeli leaders understand what the Arabs want is what Israel can never give them?

Its never been a dispute about borders, territory or settlements.

The conflict has always been about the right of a sovereign Jewish State to exist in the Middle East.

Which no less than Ahmedinejad has called a "cancer to be rooted out."

With sentiments like that, talk of peace is a mirage.