Israeli military preparedness follows a depressing pattern. The IDF does not change its assessments of the strategic environment until Israeli blood runs in the streets.
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Without the benefit of surprise, Thursday's attackers will be hard pressed to maintain their offensive in the coming days. But the possibility that the assault was just the opening round of a new irregular war emanating from Sinai cannot be ruled out. Unfortunately, due to the IDF's institutional opposition to confronting emerging threats before they become deadly, Israel faces the prospect of escalated aggression from Sinai with no clear strategy for contending with the enemy actors operating in the peninsula.
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Israel's requirements are clear. We need to invest the necessary resources to fortify the 240-km. border with Egypt by completing the security fence.
We need to increase the Southern Command's force levels by at least one regular division, preferably an armored one. We need to equip the IDF with more tanks and other platforms designed for desert warfare. We need for the IDF to begin training in desert warfare for the first time in 30 years.
We need to drastically ramp up the quality of our intelligence about Egypt.
On Thursday, we were shown that although the revolution in Egypt was not about Israel, Israel will be its first foreign victim as the new Egypt rejects the former regime's peace with the Jewish state. It is a bitter reality. But it is reality all the same and we need to contend with it, as the blood in our streets makes clear.
FP: Unfortunately, Israel is as much in denial about reality as the West, which is why it’s losing. It screws around with the UN crap instead of defending itself.…
Without the benefit of surprise, Thursday's attackers will be hard pressed to maintain their offensive in the coming days. But the possibility that the assault was just the opening round of a new irregular war emanating from Sinai cannot be ruled out. Unfortunately, due to the IDF's institutional opposition to confronting emerging threats before they become deadly, Israel faces the prospect of escalated aggression from Sinai with no clear strategy for contending with the enemy actors operating in the peninsula.
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Israel's requirements are clear. We need to invest the necessary resources to fortify the 240-km. border with Egypt by completing the security fence.
We need to increase the Southern Command's force levels by at least one regular division, preferably an armored one. We need to equip the IDF with more tanks and other platforms designed for desert warfare. We need for the IDF to begin training in desert warfare for the first time in 30 years.
We need to drastically ramp up the quality of our intelligence about Egypt.
On Thursday, we were shown that although the revolution in Egypt was not about Israel, Israel will be its first foreign victim as the new Egypt rejects the former regime's peace with the Jewish state. It is a bitter reality. But it is reality all the same and we need to contend with it, as the blood in our streets makes clear.
Reuters-Middle East Watch: Reuters rooting for war between Israel and the Palestinians
Threaded throughout the story are a series of carefully contrived propaganda devices intended to sanitize Palestinian violence and demonize Israel. A terror war aimed at civilians is merely an "uprising". Marwan al-Baghouti, convicted on five counts of murder for a terror attack at a seafood restaurant in Tel Aviv, is a "charismatic" leader. The Israeli foreign minister is "far right". Arab violence is only and always a need to "resist". Palestinian protests may turn violent depending on "how the Israelis act". And of course, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who told interviewers as recently as 2008 that Palestinians may once again launch violent attacks when the time is right, is described, risibly, as being "long opposed to violence".
But mostly, the writer reveals his own melancholy that a reporting opportunity with violent confrontations may simply not be in the cards …
Since Perry, Macdonald, and Balmer obviously thirst for stories about Arab violence targeting Jews eating dinner or riding on buses, perhaps they can focus on the latest example of that today.
FP: If they were just after violence, that’s a common press objective. But they are for violence against Israel, which is not different in consequence from anti-semitism.But mostly, the writer reveals his own melancholy that a reporting opportunity with violent confrontations may simply not be in the cards …
Since Perry, Macdonald, and Balmer obviously thirst for stories about Arab violence targeting Jews eating dinner or riding on buses, perhaps they can focus on the latest example of that today.
LittleGreenFootballs: Well, That Didn't Take Long
Here is Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's statement (issued by his p.r. flack, of course), in its entirety:
New York, 18 August 2011 - Statement Attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General on Attacks in Southern Israel
New York, 18 August 2011 - Statement Attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General on Attacks in Southern Israel
The Secretary-General strongly condemns today's coordinated terror attacks in southern Israel. He expresses his condolences to the families of the victims and wishes a speedy recovery to the injured. The Secretary-General hopes that the perpetrators are swiftly identified and brought to justice. He is concerned at the risk of escalation and calls for all to act with restraint.[Link: www.un.org...]
That's right. The UN could not bring itself to unconditionally condemn the malicious and intentional murder of Israelis riding a bus. No. The UN had to whip out its magical balancing terminology and "remind" Israel that, unlike every other sovereign nation on this planet, Israel's right under international law and the UN Charter to defend its citizens exists only in theory.
As I stated in a post on another page earlier today, I believe Israel's response will be restrained and measured, just as it has largely been for the past 60+ years. However, Israel has every right under international law to seek out and visit destruction upon all of those who were directly and indirectly responsible for today's massacre, without regard to whether it needs to "escalate" in order to do so. That the UN cannot condemn today's attack without telling Israel that it is expected to refrain from doing so represents everything that is wrong with the UN and the rank hypocrisy of most of the world's elites when it comes to terrorism.
FP: The UN not far behind. As long as the UN funds and supports UNRWA and Hamas, I don’t give a flying fuck for their condemnations. Ditto for the US and Clinton’s comments:As I stated in a post on another page earlier today, I believe Israel's response will be restrained and measured, just as it has largely been for the past 60+ years. However, Israel has every right under international law to seek out and visit destruction upon all of those who were directly and indirectly responsible for today's massacre, without regard to whether it needs to "escalate" in order to do so. That the UN cannot condemn today's attack without telling Israel that it is expected to refrain from doing so represents everything that is wrong with the UN and the rank hypocrisy of most of the world's elites when it comes to terrorism.
"This violence only underscores our strong concerns about the security situation in the Sinai Peninsula," US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton said in a statement. "Recent commitments by the Egyptian government to address the security situation in the Sinai are important and we urge the Egyptian government to find a lasting resolution," the chief US diplomat said.
It’s the US that brought Mubarak down and it is directly responsible for the collapse of Egypt. So please.
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