As a former senior IDF officer and as someone who has done and knows nothing about operations and militaries, it is difficult for me to write the following.
The outgoing head of the Technology and Logistics Division, Major General Turgeman, was "proud" that alternative and detour routes were found for IDF convoys to the Wadi Ara road, which is expected to be dangerous and blocked during combat.
It is implied from his words that this is one of the lessons of Operation Guardian of the Walls, when many deputies in Israel were disrupted by Arab rioters.
In other words, instead of the IDF explicitly warning during combat that those of Westerners in Israel and Judea and Samaria who harmed the movement of IDF soldiers on Israeli routes were bloodthirsty, the army is looking for poor replacements and detours for its freedom of action.
General Turgeman, on behalf of the IDF, therefore sought and found "creative solutions." This may remind the sages of Chelm that when the bridge in the town broke and pedestrians fell on it, they decided to build a hospital under the bridge.
Sharp criticism of General Turgeman's "solution" was also expressed in Colonel Yehuda Wegman's article in this section, whose apt title, "Weakness and Operational Weakness," probably did well to reflect the IDF's mood in the face of its expected difficulties.
The interview given by the commander of the Southern Command, Major General Eliezer Toledano, also leaves a difficult and even embarrassing impression.
In stenciled and meaningless answers, he repeatedly said that "Israel is strong," but did not know why Operation Wall Guard ended in a "sour draw."
Strong Israel should have had much better results.
Toledano Sheva was pleased that the Southern Command and the Gaza Division defended well in the Wall Guard, but the glory of the IDF is not only in defense, not to mention that most of the attack was carried out by the Air Force and the General Staff.
In the operation, despite some achievements, the IDF did not ultimately prevent the launch of 4,360 rockets, including on Jerusalem and the Tel Aviv area. American.
Mistakes can happen in war, as General Toledano said, and it is true that war also has a price and sacrifices. But, for example, were the mistake and the price of the fall of the fighter Barel Hadaria Shmueli obligatory if the IDF had acted resolutely to curb and keep the Hamas rioters away from the Gaza border? And I know and believe in his ability to deter and find the right solutions against Hamas. General Toledano's repeated remarks about the "need to balance" between the residents of the Gaza Strip and Hamas undermine the IDF's performance.
The words of the two generals, for example, are just one worrying symptom of what has been happening in the IDF in recent years. I will focus on only one of them, and that is - opening combat roles for women. He is, by nature, a male profession, as he has always been. There is no reason for the IDF to meet feminist demands, and they will be successful and talented.
The purpose of the IDF is to ensure and fully protect the security of the state and its citizens.
The IDF is not an organization for the cultivation of gender and social equality, and does not have to respond to the politically correct trend. The sign of heroism. "It is no wonder, then, that he himself came out against the inclusion of women as tankers, and deserves to be heard.
In general, the IDF must have the courage and fortitude to stand up and repel the spirit of laxity that challenges it in various passages.
The writer is a former senior security official
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