Posted on 04/23/2007 11:50:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Last Friday, Haaretz's military commentator Ze'ev Schiff accused the Barak and Sharon governments of responsibility for last summer's war. As Schiff put it, since the IDF withdrawal from southern Lebanon in May 2000, "a threatening system [comprised of Hizbullah, Syria and Iran] arose [on Israel's northern border], which required a preemptive strike. The aversion to conducting such a strike eventually caused the war."
Schiff's analysis is correct. But since it stops short of drawing lessons for the present dangers, it is largely useless. Today, due to the Olmert-Livni-Peretz government's failure in the last war, we stand at the brink of the next one. And in the next war, the main enemy will be Syria, which will fight in coordination with Hizbullah and the Palestinians and under Iranian guidance.
Syria has been openly preparing for war since the last summer. And in the space of the past week alone, the Syrians twice announced their intention to attack Israel. On Monday, Syria's Propaganda Minister Moshen Bilal threatened that if Israel doesn't fully implement the Arab plan which calls for its retreat to the 1949 armistice lines and acceptance of millions of Arab immigrants, Syria will go to war. On Wednesday, Syrian dictator Bashar Assad said, "We always prepare ourselves. Israel is a fierce enemy. We have seen nothing from it but harm."
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Looks like my summer’s gonna be a busy one.
May HaShem make you tougher than iron (B”H).
Interesting take on the Syrian Kurds.
May G-d bless and protect Israel and their armed forces. I spent hours trying to explain to a moonbat I know just why giving back the Golan Heights is just plain insanity for Israel. It would place Tel-Aviv and Haifa within artillery range of Syrian forces who would probably shell these cities with conventional and chemical weapons if given the opportunity.
And it’s my unit that rescues and cleans up after conventional and non-conventional weapons attacks, terrorist attacks, natural disasters and so forth - here and abroad.
We’re the largest rescue force in the world.
Whoa, Big task for your unit. Chemical decon is tough. Syria bought into and still would use Soviet -era battle doctrine (the kind that got Iraq’s ass kicked in the first Gulf War). If my memory serves me correctly, Israel was first to show the weakness of Soviet battle doctrine in both the ‘67 and ‘73 wars as CAS ruled the day against armored thrusts by Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, all Soviet client states.
That was part of direct support for us. They stayed in the field quite a bit and were pretty well trained to take care of us (including decon).
Next time around I hope the Israelis do war along the 1967 model. Once the Palis, Syria, Hezbollah mass their forces, nail ‘em hard before they attack. Screw international opinion.
Ya think? ;^)
Genesis 12
1. The LORD had said to Abram, "Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you.
2. "I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.
3. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you."
If Assad & clan trigger war with Israel, Bashar will have wished he stayed in London finishing his post grad studies to become an opthamologist, since he's going to 'see' the dangerous error of his terrorist ways, that all the doctor in the world will not be able to resolve.
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Nonsense
That was the reason. Nowadays, the easy availability of cheap missiles and targeting solutions means the Golan Heights are not valuable for that reason.
But they are still strategically valuable for another reason...water. The water of the Golan has a huge imapct on the economic viability of a large part of Israel - even the Syrians know this which is why their offers from last year on indicated willingness to allow the Israelis the lions share of that water.
The water is a far greater benefit - and danger - than any artillery which needs ot be sited in Golan is. We are no longer in the 1960s.
It would appear the solution is for the IDF to invade Syria, capture the Baathist leadership, exterminate it and create a new state that is home to all the Palestinian deritus presently scattered about.
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