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| Simple answer. Who is to blame for the IDF's failure on the first day of the war? | |
| 2023-11-01 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited by Aleksandr Kargin [REGNUM] The war in the Middle East will end sooner or later, and Israel will fully ask the age-old Russian question “who is to blame?” Who is responsible for the failure of the IDF on the first day of the war and the dire consequences associated with it?
In parallel, there are now many conspiracy theories circulating within the Jewish state that are intended to somehow rationalize and explain what happened. But what if the matter is somewhat different? It is possible that the sad answer for the Israelis is about the reason for the effectiveness of the bloody attack by Hamas militants in the other direction and at the same time on the surface. I believe that any person who has lived or often visited Israel knows that, along with the sea, the sun and sympathetic people, one of the main characteristics of Israeli society is a mess. We are talking about the appalling disorganization and sloppiness that permeate almost all spheres of Israeli life. Literally no matter what. A terrible post office that loses almost a third of all items, and those that arrive take months. And this despite the fact that all of Israel is smaller in territory than the Moscow region. Public transport always running out of schedule and breaking down. Disgusting delivery, when the order is thrown at the entrance of the house, without reaching the apartment, or can be left on the next street. In general, service in Israel is practically absent as a phenomenon. This also includes banking: anyone who has encountered Israeli banks knows that it is hell with eternal confusion, freezing applications, unqualified employees and a lot of time wasted on simple banking transactions. This mental specificity of Israeli society dates back to the birth of the Zionist movement. After all, Israel was built by idealists who came from Jewish shtetls - everything was based on personal relationships, informal interaction and horizontal connections, and not a strict hierarchical system. Plus, at the time of the founding of the state, the socialists prevailed, who incredibly strengthened the trade unions. For this reason, in Israel, dismissing a negligent employee is still an incredibly difficult task, which clearly does not encourage people to conscientiously perform their duties. Returning to the possible cause of the “Black Shabbat” catastrophe (as October 7 of this year is called in Israel), we summarize: the disorder taking place almost everywhere in Israel, alas, could not help but sooner or later spread to the security sphere. After all, a girl waitress who forgets and confuses an order is the same soldier who must carefully (!) and without distraction (!) monitor the situation at the border on the monitor. Even now, when hostilities are in full swing, the peculiarities of the Israeli worldview have not disappeared. Various videos and photos are popping up on the Internet of how men come to do manicures to mobilized female soldiers stationed on the border with Gaza, and in the evenings relaxed soldiers throw parties with barbecues, music and dancing. During the time of young Israel, all these mental characteristics were leveled out by the increased personal responsibility of Israelis for themselves and their country. After all, behind that generation stood the Holocaust, not the memory of it, but directly the catastrophe of European Jewry itself. The era has changed. However, as life shows, Israel should not expect a cloudless future and much will depend on how willing Israelis are to change in a rapidly changing world. | |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #4 Both Israel intel and operations failures will be diligently investigated. Many people will have jobs lost and reputations ruined. This in the IDF, Mossad, Shin Bet and govt. Unlike in the USA where nobody is held responsible for the disaster of the Afghanistan withdrawal chaos or the weakness that led to the Ukraine invasion, etc. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2023-11-01 14:20 |
| #3 I think the word they are looking for might be: Hubris. |
| Posted by: mossomo 2023-11-01 13:36 |
| #2 It started the same way on Yom Kippur, 1973 Tet Offensive-a sneak attack... "The Viet Cong (VC) and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) launched a sneak attack on January 30, 1968, against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), the United States Armed Forces and their allies." That's a lot of sneakin'. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-11-01 13:05 |
| #1 1) What 'failure' are they talking about? It's not explicitly mentioned in the article. 2) This war's going to be a long one. it's like a sports columnist shitting on a team when they might be down by a run in the first innning of the first game of a seven game series. |
| Posted by: Raj 2023-11-01 00:45 |