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What Israel can learn from its June wars
Giora Eiland
Published: 06.06.19, 23:29
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1. All Wars Include Offensive and Defensive Measures
Sam ,   Dallas   (06.07.19)
The idea of calling the Six-Day-War a defensive war is not accurate at all. While Egypt Secretary of State Riyad was on his way to Washington for talks Israel attacked the Arabs airports on all fronts. Most of the Arabs air power was wiped out in the first few hours of the war. Since then, Arabs have adually been learning from Israel how to fight. This was obvious in 1973 and the Lebanon Wars.
2. Must Win
DSM ,   USA   (06.07.19)
Israel should never start another war unless it intends on totally defeating the enemy. As for being drawn into another war, the goal must be the same..to win at all costs. The U.S. has forgotten how to do this and lost in Korea, Viet Nam and remains in a 14 year stalemate in Afghanistan. Israel can not afford to lose a battle or war. It is also so very important that the rules of engagement are not so stringent as to easily punish it's own servicemen.
3. Lesson No1-500: whoop enemy's ass!!!! Then you can talk and
(06.07.19)
wax poetic about God &Universe and goals and objectives and peace and music.
Whoop that ass first, do it thoroughly and diligently, so that he considers ten times, before making hostile moves next time (if ever)!
You need no high education for that, all you need is strong will, great military strategists and government with testicles instead of marshmallows!
4. Faking of instigating events give one the justification to
NYC   (06.07.19)
control the narrative, preemption and the battlefield.
5. 1967 Israel was first to strike Egypt = Offensive war.
TheWall   (06.07.19)
6. IT AINT ROCKET SCIENCE
ALBERTO EINSTEIN ,   SAFED OBVIOUS   (06.07.19)
It is really quite simple : HE WHO HITS HARD AND RUNS AWAY LIVES TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY.
7. THE TRUE LESSON
MR CYNIC ,   SAFED CYNIC HOUSE   (06.07.19)
Do not bother fighting any war for Israel ,you will be wasting your time.Do not bother capturing any territory ,as it will just be returned when some foreign diplomat " leans on ' spineless israel politicians.
8. if you want arabs to fear and respect you
TEL EM STRAIGHT ,   SAFED HONESTY   (06.08.19)
All Israel needs to do ,on order to be feared and respected by arab enemies. is to continue to hold regular Gay Pride parades in Jerusalem.
9. To the liberal sensibility there is no thing such as...
The Word ,   Saturna, IT   (06.09.19)
"just" war.

To the liberal, war is anathema to the human condition, some throwback to an atavistic instinct; man's reflexive impulse to kowtow to his most base instincts. Wars must be "defensive," in nature, if they should even be fought at all.

Of course, like all liberal theorems, this is total nonsense.

The best defense is a good offense. And Israel practiced that writ large until the late 1960's.

Israel's stab at the "moral superiority" of fighting defensive wars has led to its greatest debacles and loss of life...'73, Oslo's horrendous suicide warfare, and the "noble" defensive posture the IDF took in Lebanon from 1983 - 2006.

If Israel is going to dominate the battlefield again as she did in the 40's, 50's and 60's, she's going to have to return to form and find thrill in the kill as her soldiers once did, before the onset of the post-1960's hippie malaise infected Israeli society and her troops.

קרבי זה הכי אחי

10. perhaps due to translation, this article is POORLY-written,
Rafi ,   US   (06.11.19)
poorly organized.

Besides the fact that two wars began in June, what major points are you trying to make ??

Please tell me this isn't the way Gen. Eiland really processes his thoughts!
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