The First Five Paragraphs Tell the Story
Of Israel’s Second War with Shiite Hizbullah
In a capsular way that is Descriptive and Graphic
Of the Deterioration of a once Great Dedicated Force
And is the Reason Israel has been frantically Rebuilding
The IDF since it was Humiliated in its Charge into Lebanon
My first contact with the Israeli Military followed the 1948 War
Its fighting force was Tough, Dedicated, Patriotic, Lean, and Mean
But after the 1973 War It began to change and their values Declined
July 11, 2008
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I learned conversational Hebrew so I could start friendly conversations with the Israeli troops during my trips to the Middle East from 1952 to 1999.
I noticed a slip in the characteristics that made them such a great military force immediately following the 1967 war, and it accelerated after the 1973 war.
The military decline in the efficiency of the IDF is a subject I dealt with on many occasions during my hundreds of lectures across Europe, the U.S., and Africa from 1979 to 2005.
Immediately after the second war with Hizbullah,
the Israelis recalled a General noted for his toughness and bulldog tenacity in maintaining a high moral and efficiency in the IDF, and he is still in the process of the rebuilding of the IDF.
He is IDF Chief of the General Staff, Lt. General Gabi Ashkenazi. He delivered the May 1, 1948 speech for the Jewish Nation at Auschwitz-Birkenau titled: “March of the Living,” which was a salute to the ashes of those who were cremated at Auschwitz, as well as all the victims of the Holocaust, and Jewish martyrs down through the centuries of the Dispersion.
As a soldier, I have the greatest admiration for him, and hope he is still the IDF Commander when Israel charges north from Beersheba to take back all the land from Dan to Hamath in Syria and east to claim all the land to the Euphrates River.
Revelation 12:6 – And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Zechariah 13:9 – And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.
Daniel 12:1 – And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
Genesis 15:18 – In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
Ezekiel 47:17 – And the border from the sea shall be Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is the north side.
“Hamath” is Hama or Hamah in northern Syria
Ezekiel 47:19 – And the south side southward,
from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the south side southward.
“The River” is the Euphrates River
“The Great Sea” is the Mediterranean
Begin Jerusalem Post Excerpt
His first war
July 10, 2008
MEREDITH PRICE LEVITT , THE JERUSALEM POST
When Yariv Mozer got an unexpected call-up to replace a shell-shocked officer who had left the battlefield in the Second Lebanon War, he instinctively reached for his camera.
For years, it had served as his personal video camera, and the unprofessional, mini DV had poor sound quality, one battery and five cassettes.
“The idea of going to war was frightening for me, and bringing the camera was a way for me to overcome my fear. The camera provided a way to mediate between myself and the events that were happening around me,” s ays the 30-ye
ar-old owner of a production company whose previous work includes Hothouse and a PBS series on the Six Day War. “I didn’t set out with the intention to film a documentary.”
When he arrived in the North, Mozer was horrified by the irony of the situation.
The lines of battle had been drawn among pastoral orchards swelling with fruit where, in times
of peace, vacationers come to hike and picnic in the verdant hillsides. Filled with tanks, artillery and soldiers, the land was overcome with the sounds of battle: Deafening sirens sounded as rockets crashed into the earth and radios crackled with orders.
“My commanding officer told me to go ahead and film as one day it would be a part of history,” says Mozer, who agreed not to release any footage without permission from the IDF censor. It was a struggle to get the documentary through, as soldiers in the film are often critical of the IDF command structure, but Mozer says that in the end, he was forced to make very few compromises and allowed to keep most of the footage.
Generally, a feeling of disorganization and bedlam worsens as the war progresses.
Rockets fall, tanks are destroyed with sophisticated anti-tank missiles, more and more soldiers are killed and the atmosphere is one of defeat and senselessness.
Orders are given and then retracted. “Somebody sent soldiers to die,” says the bleary-eyed Capt. Reuven Sa’adon to Mozer as he drives back from Lebanon in an armored Humvee. “That is the clearest thing I can say.”
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