HUGE đ¨ Indian Army Chief praises Israel. Several People won't like this đ He called Israel's move to set up a shell company to make "explosive pagers" and derail Hezbollah terrorists a MASTERSTROKE He said "The war does not start the day you start fighting, it starts the day you start planning" "Pager operation required years and years of preparation by Israel"
Unit 101 was established because the prime minister and the IDF hierarchy headed by the chief of staff, faced with a demoralized postwar army, decided that even if very small, a truly effective combat unit could achieve morale-raising tactical victories that would in turn allow more victories, with widening effects across the army. But the other to
... See moreThe year was 1968, and in the hyper-intensive intelligence atmosphere of the time, this was big news. Brill, a major in IDF Military Intelligence Directorateâknown by its Hebrew acronym, Amanâset aside the report he was reading and got up.
The âagentâ was one of the first Israeli spies to successfully infiltrate Egypt since the Six Day War had ended, a year earlier. He had photos that were supposed to reveal Egyptian war plans, including possible preparations behind the cease-fire line.
The first effect back in Israel of our air force attacks was to make our sayeret helicopter missions into the Sinai superfluous. In fact, it left the entire unit at loose endsâespecially hard for veterans or reservists like me who had been part of our nearly decade-long development into Israelâs sole, dedicated cross-border infiltration force. At t
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