A few remarks on the situation

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The so called decision to cut the Israeli defense budget is a bad joke. Nobody outside the treasury knows exactly what, is actually the current defense budget. This does not allow any way to measure things. And even if something is cut we can expect an urgent night meeting in coming months , in which the budget will not only shrink , but inflate,  because of what is defined as “Sensitive urgent  Issues”

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The Israeli homeland security ministry is teeth less. There is a minister and staff but they are actually helpless to change the things that have to be changed.

This ministry like many others , has one mission – to solve coalition problems. In Israel this ministry should have been in a very high status. It is not.

In the new budget proposal the allocation to the ministry does not allow it to spend a sum that can change something. A bad joke.

We will all pay the price.

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Israel in the past years, did not use its mighty military force to stop terror attacks from Gaza and Lebanon. Israel used some of this force in a “Surgical” manner. When rockets hit the population center the politicians were not brave enough to unleash the might of the Israeli defense forces and mainly the airforce.

This will happen again because we deal mostly with the same politicians. They want to complete their shift without too many complications. So the population will absorb. The Israeli airforce can stop the barrage of rockets in two days. Someone has to give the order. I don’t see that someone in the neighborhood.

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When countries like Russia and China directly or indirectly support a murderous regime like in Syria that is a terror supporter, the international efforts to suppress terror have little chance to succeed.

Syria supports the Hezbollah in Lebanon , one of the moist dangerous terror organizations . Instead of helping to end the civil war in Syria , the two super powers put hurdles on the flimsy efforts made by the U.S and Europe.

This game is not only useless , it is pathetic. Israel is alone in that battle. When you are alone you should use all you have in order to win. This is not being done.