Aviv Kotchavi, whose crazy ideas are beginning to worry his own hierarchy, now recommends provoking a new war against Gaza “very different from all the previous wars” which, let’s not forget, ended without exception in the defeat of Israel.
“It is a question of occupying Gaza, overthrowing Hamas, killing there every day some 300 fighters and officers of Qassam (the armed wing of Hamas, editor’s note), dismantling there stocks of weapons and missiles, in short, to be relieved of having accumulated successive failures since 2008,” one reads in the columns of Maariv who quotes the enlightened chief of the Zionist general staff. Except that Kotcahvi does not explain how he intends to do this, even though concordant reports point out that more and more Zionist soldiers “are being recruited in unfit sectors and this, for purely financial reasons.
In a recent article Rai al-Youm states: “Israel is trying to show itself as ‘a military power in the Middle East’, but it has a hungry army! The Israeli Army was not seen as a strong component, the pandemic state has made things worse. Poverty in Israel continues to grow and the spread of the Corona virus has fueled the scourge. According to a report recently published by the Israeli organization Latit, 143,000 new Israeli families have been plunged in recent weeks into poverty and famine, their number already being half a million before the health crisis and the situation has been getting worse since last March”.
And the text asks: “How can we reform the army and create a strong army in a context of total disarray? The most powerful army in the Middle East is suffering like the other social components of this crisis, the text adds, before continuing: “If the meager income is barely sufficient for basic housing, water, electricity, property taxes and gas, many families do not have enough money for food.
“Many factors have influenced the deterioration of the situation in Israel, the most important of which are, after the Corona epidemic, the reduction of family allowances, the slowdown in economic growth, the decline in security, the cultural marginalization of women and internal problems that make it difficult for women to enter the labor market or to move to areas more attractive for job search, as many economists have confirmed. The Centre-Banlieu dichotomy is more evident than ever and Israel is divided into two: the poor and the terribly poor”.
And the text concludes: “Israeli Chief of Staff Kochavi has ambitious plans such as promoting the interconnection between the army and the air and maritime branches, aimed at advancing the Israeli army in terms of efficiency in ground maneuvers and in all other spheres. Kochavi believes that with this concept, the army will be able to cope well with the next war. But without soldiers and without money we don’t really see how to do it unless we do it again on the backs of the Arab allies in the Persian Gulf”. (JP)
by Basit Abbasi