Israel calls up reserves. What can Israel and the world expect?
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Normally, the Tzahal (literally, Defensive Armies of Israel)
can call up any one unit of troops one year in three. They can also
call them up for short training sessions in the in-between years.
But The Times of Israel reports that Rav Aluf
Benny Gantz, IDF chief of staff, demanded and got authority from the
Knesset to call up 22 reserve battalions on an emergent basis. He has
called up six of them, and might call up the other sixteen. (See also here.)
Last month, the IDF canceled a tribute to reservists, and then a short-term training session. The reports on both stories blamed “budget cuts.” But now Rav Aluf Gantz has called up more troops to active duty.
Sources told The Times of Israel that Rav Aluf
Gantz is plainly worried about Egypt and Syria. He might have good
reason. The Egyptian regular army has almost lost control of the Sinai.
Arab infiltrators got into the Negev last August and attacked a loaded
bus before the IDF killed them. Some of the infiltrators wore Egyptian
uniforms.
In Syria, 10 people living in a farming village died
from mortar fire from government forces. A UN observer on the scene
told the Associated Press that both sides (government and opposition
forces) have violated the cease-fire that should have taken effect on
April 12.
There's more to this. Why did Rav Aluf Gantz cancel leaves and passes for Passover? And what might he be afraid of? Sure, the Naqba and Naksa Day protest season will start shortly. But Gantz would be deploying his extra troops in the West Bank, not in the Negev and the Golan.
No. He's worried about a replay of the Yom Kippur War.
What do you think is going to happen?
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John James 2012/05/03 03:16:45None of the above
+13Thanks to obama making a mess of Libya, and Egypt, we now have the muslim brotherhood and Iran making an all out war in the Mideast a new reality. obama is looking to finish what was started in WW2. Israel is now in a real life or death position because of obama
Some of the elders may remember the 1967 War, but the younger ones have no clue. And the elders are past fighting age.
I would like for us to have the guts to do what is right and what is needed, but ...
Besides, if I am correct we will have our own problems. Iran has missiles in Venezuela, there are thousands of Islamic terrs in the US, just awaiting orders. Maybe, we can have a race to see who kills the most Moslems.
It never ceases to amaze me when people fail to comprehend just how TREMENDOUS an ALLY the U.S. has in Israel!!! Name one other U.S. ally that has literally shed their own blood in order for the U.S. to appear peace loving to the Arab nations, THERE IS NONE!!!
Yet, in order to raise the esteem of the U.S. to the Arab world the Israeli's continually shed their own blood, WITHOUT RETRIBUTION, and WITHOUT BACKING from the U.S., thanks to Odumbo!!!
YOU most certainly have been bashing Israel!!! Although it's become painfully obvious that you're entirely too stupid to even comprehend that!!!
And as for your ignorant rant about the NJDC issues and why they vote demoncrap, OF COURSE the NJDC votes demoncrap!!! The NJDC stands for National Jewish DEMONCRAP Council, and they DO NOT REPRESENT the ISRAELI's at all, but merely their OWN American agendas!!!
Besides, I had already begun to suspect that the bulk of the "smarter" Jews in America had "made Aaliyah" and thus no longer had a vote in American elections. Instead they're voting in Israeli elections. And serving their terms in the *Tzahal*.
"You go to the mall as if you're going into the reserves, and you go into the reserves as if you're going into war....That's what it means to be an Israeli." So said a Jew, from Israel, writing into a French Jewish site in 2002. I translated that last year.
I believe that you are underestimating Israeli ingenuity and fortitude. Remember, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia made that same mistake in 1967. While Israel is small, they are mighty, and most of all, their reasons for attacking Iran, just like their reasons in 1967, are for their very survival.
Not one of the countries you mention shares a common border with Israel! Georgia is all the way on the far side of Iran from Israel. You need to tell me how they are going to get a sizable ground force there and then sustain it for combat there for possibly months?
Sure 67 was an outstanding example of a pre-emptive strike! 1973 they paid a terrible price to prevail. They essentially sacrificed their airforce to but time to mobilize the ground force.
I mean not insult here. I am very pro-Israel! And I am saying airstrike yes! Commando/Paratrooper strike yes! Sustained invasion no!
Like yourself, I don't see anyway for an Israeli sustained invasion and I doubt seriously that Israel has given that idea very much thought with Obama as POTUS!!! However, I do believe that Israel has already laid out their attack plans, and are already assured of being able to accomplish strategical pin point bombings like they did to Syria and Iraq.
An excellent article concerning this is at the link below.
http://www.ynetnews.com/artic...
How will Israel attack Iran?
Analysts examine ways Israel could carry out strike against Iran, issue warning: Losing tactical edge of initial sneak attack will make it hard to keep up precision strikes
Reuters Published: 11.09.11, 15:01 / Israel News
Should the Israelis attack Iran, they would probably focus strikes on select nuclear facilities while trying to avoid killing civilians en masse or crippling the oil sector.
Past operations by Israel, such as the 1981 bombing of Iraq's Osirak atomic reactor and a similar strike against Syria in 2007, suggest a strategy of one-off pinpoint raids, due both to military limitations and a desire to avoid wider war.
Israel remains publicly committed to the US-led big power strategy of diplomacy and punitive sanctions to ...
Like yourself, I don't see anyway for an Israeli sustained invasion and I doubt seriously that Israel has given that idea very much thought with Obama as POTUS!!! However, I do believe that Israel has already laid out their attack plans, and are already assured of being able to accomplish strategical pin point bombings like they did to Syria and Iraq.
An excellent article concerning this is at the link below.
http://www.ynetnews.com/artic...
How will Israel attack Iran?
Analysts examine ways Israel could carry out strike against Iran, issue warning: Losing tactical edge of initial sneak attack will make it hard to keep up precision strikes
Reuters Published: 11.09.11, 15:01 / Israel News
Should the Israelis attack Iran, they would probably focus strikes on select nuclear facilities while trying to avoid killing civilians en masse or crippling the oil sector.
Past operations by Israel, such as the 1981 bombing of Iraq's Osirak atomic reactor and a similar strike against Syria in 2007, suggest a strategy of one-off pinpoint raids, due both to military limitations and a desire to avoid wider war.
Israel remains publicly committed to the US-led big power strategy of diplomacy and punitive sanctions to get the Iranians to curb their uranium enrichment and ensure it is for peaceful purposes only.
But the specter of unilateral Israeli strikes resurfaced with the publication on Tuesday of charges by UN inspectors of a possible military dimension to Iran's nuclear project.
Israel lacks heavy long-range air force bombers, but its advanced F-15 and F-16 warplanes could hit sites in western Iran and further inland with air-to-air refueling and by using stealth technology to overfly hostile Arab nations.
Israel attacked Iraq and Syria before their alleged nuclear weapons projects had yielded fissile material that could end up as toxic debris. Similarly, analysts say, it would try to avoid an Iranian death toll that would fuel public calls for revenge.
Control escalation
A 2009 simulation at the Brookings Institution in Washington theorized that Israel, intent on halting or hobbling what the West suspects is Tehran's covert quest for the means to make atomic weaponry, would launch a sneak pre-emptive attack on half-a-dozen nuclear sites in Iran.
I now see that we essentially agree. Semantics can be a real pain sometimes! Oh & good luck with that knob Dallas.
I read an article recently that the Israeli's have already set up an air base in the Republic of Georgia, complete with weaponry, and that the Israeli's also have the capabilities of using stealth technology to overfly hostile Arab nations.
The two things that I believe are certain are that Israel will be forced to attack Iran soon, and when they do, they will do such a precise surgical attack on Iranian nuclear facilities that, just as Iraq and Syria, Iran will be bombed at least 20 years BACK in their military history!!!
As for dear old "DullAss", never have I had someone continually prove their utter stupidity as well as he does!!!
Something I have thought that often get's missed in the lame stream media is that both Israel and Saudi Arabia are members of that very exclusive club of F15 drivers that hone skills at Nellis AFB. So very quietly Israel & the Saudis do in fact interact. And the Saudis do in fact have tankers and AWACs!
The Sunni Saudis do not want an Iranian backed Shi'ite majority regime in Iraq on that long border they share and of course tiny Kuwait does not as well. Another thing missed is that the Saudis are extremely well armed and trained! Not anywhere near the actual combat experience but what's been recorded is in the few incidents Saudi Pilots have done very well!
Remember in Air to Air Combat NO F15 has ever been shot down! As of now it's 120+ to zip nada bupkiss!
No other nation has been targeted for total annihilation besides Israel!!!
So, by your estimation, Israel should meekly wait until attacked with nuclear power!!! That's the same BS that Clinton used when given THREE opportunities to kill Bin Laden, and we got to see for ourselves how that ended on 9/11!!!
As for your insinuation that Iran has the right to a "preemptive strike" against Israel, if you'll remember, it was IRAN that called for the annihilation of Israel and NOT the other way around!!! So, when considering Iran's vocal threat against Israel, a "preemptive strike" by Iran is NOT viable.
Haj Amin Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.