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1 year ago (edited)I believe the story was that Singapore asked many countries including Egypt first. The story goes that they refused whereas their neighbours the Israelis generously helped, and withour credit to their name as well. They are truly a light to the world. Interestingly Singapors's first PM Lee's composite name means "Light and Brightness" . A friend in need is a friend indeed... Singaporeans should always be grateful to them.
Israel's military is ranked 4th most powerful in the world, behind only USA, Russia and China.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israe... World Report finds,but ranks only 37th 'best'
Indomitable Escutcheon
7 months agoIsrael always talk about it's granfather sucesss, not the current failures. :
Battle o fBint Jberil (the mighty israel was huimilated by hizbullah guerlla forces)
Israel sent the elite of its regular forces, the Golani infantry brigade and the Paratroopers brigade to Bint Jbeil. The IDF enjoyed a tremendous superiority both in numbers and firepower as well as absolute air superiority. The over 5,000 IDF soldiers laying a siege around the town were faced by little more than 100 Hezbollah soldiersT.he IDF failed to conquer the town or to make any other tangible operational achievements. According to Kober the Israeli withdrawal was "correctly interpreted by Hizballah as a great victory for the organization".Israli only fir shoot at innocent civilans.
They will never dared take on Countries like turkey or nuclear powered pakistan. They have media propaganda at their disposal, in reality they will not even attack iran, if they did,they will suffer a blooody nose.The leader will responsible israli civilan death and it might cause people to vote him out,,
The Winograd Commission devoted a special chapter to the battle of Bint Jbeil and especially to the deadly clash on 26 July. The commission concluded that what was described as a "division-sized battle" was in reality no more than a 120 guerilla hizbullah,they able hold off idf 4 brigades. the were"series of limited engagements between IDF forces and Hezbollah soldiers on the eastern edge, and to some extent on the western edge of the town." According to the report the failure capture Bint Jbeil became "a symbol of the unsuccessful action of the Israel Defense Forces throughout the fighting.This only show israel experiance not necssary will help us here.yes,they are good in resilience.but because of poor intelligence (once,an israli said they have mossad in every town in the world, you cannot even predict your neigbouring country rebel movements or defeat it)
Hezbollah considered the battle of Bint Jbeil a remarkable victory. The IDF forces participating in the battle were vastly superior, both in terms of numbers and of firepower.
The Israeli army's failure in the war in general and especially its inability to conquer Bint Jbeil generated bitterness in Israel. The war had not ended before the recriminations inside the IDF Command started flying. The commander of the 7th Brigade, Col. Amnon Eshel was caught by a TV camera saying that his superior officer Brig. Gen. Gal Hirsch "does not understand what is going on on the battlefield", a statement that probably ended his military career. Hirsch shot back, accusing Eshel of never once entering Lebanon himself, only watching the war from his "plasma screen" in his HQ in Israel.
Former Chief of Staff Moshe Yaalon's criticism of the Israeli conduct of the war was scathing, calling it a "catastrophe". Aware of the seriousness of the antitank threat, he says that the IDF should have left the vulnerable tanks at home and stayed away from built-up areas – "no tanks and no houses" – and to operate in a more guerrilla like type of warfare. He was especially critical of the attempted occupation of Bint Jbeil.
Commander of Northern Command Udi Adam was practically dismissed on 8 August 2006 - after his failure to capture Bint Jbeil - when the Chief of Staff Dan Halutz sent his deputy, Moshe Kaplinsky, to serve as a "coordinator" at Northern Command. Adam resigned from the army a month after the war. The Chief of Staff himself resigned from his post in January 2007 and his deputy Kaplinsky retired from the army in late 2007. Gen. Hirsch became the prime target for the widespread frustration in Israel after the war, having direct responsibility both for the abduction affair and the failures at Bint Jbeil and Ayta ash-Sha'b. He was forced to resign a few months after the war.
After his resignation, former Chief of Staff Halutz said that "the most blatant non-achievement or failure" of the war was allowing it to continue for so long. If the initial battles at Maroun al-Ras and Bint Jbeil had been more successful the final ground operation could have been avoided. "We could have achieved a lot more if we had been more determined,” he said.
Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was very disappointed at the army's lack of "results"
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