The Israeli Air Force is one of the best in the world.
The name of the brave pilots, the skilled ground crews, the technological capabilities and the brilliant design have made the corps a body whose name goes - or flies - before it.
But even in a military organization with a glorious culture and history malfunctions occur.
One such incident occurred just before Independence Day, after a map was published on the Air Force website showing that a group of Efroni planes would pass in the traditional flight over the city of Hebron, whose name also precedes it from the days of King David.
To the IDF's credit, it did not take even a day to understand the magnitude of the incident. More than 3,000 years.
At first it was the IDF spokesman, who stuttered and claimed that he "thought" that the flight route would include Hebron and Gush Etzion. Immediately afterwards, a "military source" was sent to brief journalists and clarify that the flight route was not determined at all. Accidentally. Indeed, after a few hours' hand the boat disappeared from the net the map.
The Air Force specializes in planning, and the Independence Day flight was not scheduled a week before the event.
But more importantly, it takes a complete detachment from the roots and also a little cowardice to back away from what should be taken for granted, like flying over areas that connected the Jewish people to their country for many years before the word airplane, and also before the word Palestine.
The IDF's battle heritage, and the Zionist ethos that motivated the establishment of the state, concern the disputed territories. Bar Kochba did not fight on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv; the Hasmoneans did not operate in Haifa; and Chief of Staff Rabin fought to liberate Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria In our hands. "
According to IDF logic, which treats Hebron as a malfunction, it may be worthwhile to delete the members of the convoy from the battle convoy and move the date of Remembrance Day, which was set, among other things, following the fall of Gush Etzion on May 4, to another day. Songs of Remembrance on the Ammunition Hill and the Man from the Valley.
And if order is already being made, it is also better to stop swearing allegiance to the IDF with your hand on the book of the Bible, and certainly not to do so at the Western Wall, located in occupied al-Quds.
It seems that the IDF does have problems with maps, but it really needs a compass. Even if it is politically legitimate to think that Hebron, Gush Etzion and Judea and Samaria should be handed over, these are the areas that justify the existence of the F-35 with the Israeli flag in Middle East airspace. This relationship can only end in one way - a crash.
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