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Commentary;
Below is a YouTube video on the Six Day War.
After viewing it, compelling questions arise on this the 41st anniversary of that momentous and historic event; Is the IDF as capable now of fighting and devastating her Arab Islamic foes in war as they were then? Did we hear in those days arguments such as “nothing can be done about Kassam and mortar attacks” without endangering Israeli lives, short-range missile interception systems as a substitute for human military action, or that it is preferential to not strike terrorists for fear of harming “innocents”?
Are today’s IDF soldiers more trained for war-time combat or for policing checkpoints or expelling Jews?
Is today’s Israeli military, soo influenced in its various sectors either by the possible political advancement and protexia as well as by leftist, anti-Jewish agendization, capable of developing a devastating three front battle plan, or capable of executing missions such as the Entebbe hostage rescue or the attack on the Iraqi Osirak Nuclear reactor and carrying out such a battle plan or mission with the same degree of perfection and pin-point accuracy? Was last fall’s attack on the Syrian facility sufficient proof of such an ongoing capability?
It is interesting to note that in this video, as in other documentation on The Six Day War, there is no mention of super-natural miraculousness or Divine intervention. But the inescapable conclusion to be drawn from the events of The Six Day War is that a unified Jewish nation, which had subordinated sectorial rivalry to the collective National wellbeing was thus worthy of Divine protection. And in this way, the contrast between the IDF and the Israel of The Six Day War, of The Yom Kippur War, of the Entebbe Rescue, of the Osirak operation and of today’s Israel and the IDF is stark. MB
Hat tip to Benjamin Lemkin of Lemkin Realty.