Egozi’s Fury – Soldiers along the Gaza Border

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It is up to you what to make of this: stupidity, lack of understanding, black humor or a mixture of all of them. One way or the other, the IDF is expected to rule today whether to rescind the deployment of soldiers securing the municipalities along the border with the Gaza Strip.

Scores of worried local residents demonstrated last week at the entrance to Nirim, in protest of the unfolding IDF decision.

Last week, the IDF announced that security of communities which are not adjacent to the border will end. Only Kibbutz Nahal Oz, Kibbutz Kerem Shalom and Netiv Ha’asara will continue to have security, complete with soldiers at the gate and patrols along the border fence and inside the settlements. Following the residents’ protest, the army announced it was delaying the decision to later today. In tandem, the IDF will assess the situation over the weekend and the coming days.

Another discussion will hardly change the extent of stupidity underlying this decision. Who could be so ignorant as to make such a decision, with rockets continuing to fall all over the area, and Hamas fortifications continue to be constructed practically right next to the border fence, allowing them to reach each community within 5 minutes? Almost every week, we see attempts to cross the fence, and someone still decided to call of soldier deployment over there. Unbelievable.

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The State Comptroller’s report is unequivocal about IDF reserve units being unfit for war. I truly hope the IDF General Staff is aware of the situation, and did not learn of this for the first time by reading it in the report.

It is simply unacceptable that the blame for this state of unreadiness is laid on budget cuts. I am sick and tired of hearing this. Something is very wrong in the IDF, probably the last sacred cow left in Israel.

Something is terribly amiss, and I am not referring exclusively to the state of reserve units, but also to a few recently exposed phenomena in various IDF units.

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It all begins and ends with discipline. The IDF cannot be an army of “buddies”. Sometime, this is what you see when you come across certain soldiers and the way the secure bases.

So wake up before it is too late.

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Harper Collins, one of the world’s largest publishing houses, has done the bidding of Islamic terror. They made Israel disappear, having published atlases in English for schools in Arab countries and in the Middle East, without Israel. The atlases, distributed in the United Arab Emirates, in the Persian Gulf countries and in additional Middle Eastern countries, has Egypt and Jordan sharing a border where Israeli territory actually lies. On the other hand, the atlas clearly shows the West Bank and Gaza. Harper Collins defended themselves in saying “providing maps which feature Israel would be unthinkable for clients in the Persian Gulf. The maps were published in accordance with the local specifications.”

You see, there are facts, and there is subservience. These are the enemies we have to deal with: primitive folks who believe the world to be flat, and that it does not comprise of Israel.

Last week, Harper Collins issued an apology. But we already got the point. There are those who would alter facts to get some business done.

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I read it in utter disbelief. I am sure you have too.

Israel’s Supreme Court justices convened last week to discuss the appeal by the family of the terrorist Muataz Hejazi, who had attempted to assassinate right wing activist Yehuda Glick. The Supreme Court justices ruled that for now, the terrorist’s house would not be demolished. The justices said that despite the severity of the terrorist’s acts, Glick ultimately survived. You here it: because the terrorist’s bullets missed vital organs, and because effective medical assistance arrived in time, the terrorist attack was not that severe. Something has gone totally wrong in Israel. I am putting this mildly out of reverence for Israel’s Supreme Court. But you all understand something is unhinged here.