We have found with very little cost that the IDF is not prepared for the battlefield of today.

This situation came about as the result of two things, first that the threat to the existence of the Jewish state was over. That the battle was only going to be a terrorist threat primarily focused on the Palestinians and maybe an attack or two on Israeli targets outside of Israel such as the attacks in Argentina carried out by Hizballah in the recent past.

Today we face an enemy that is better prepared and armed than ever before. We have Egypt armed with American F16 fighter aircraft and The M1Abrams tanks. With additional regional pressure, combined with the rise in Egypt of support for the Islamic Brotherhood can the Camp David Accords hold?

I would think it would be foolish to hope so. So we must plan on a potential war on our western front.

On the east we have Syria, who post the victory of Hizballah is going to start its own campaign of guerilla warfare in an effort to force the return of the Golan Heights. One must also facture in that Syria has over 10,000 rockets and missiles that can hit any city in Israel.

Iran the current grand master at directing the actions in the region to destroy Israel has missiles that can hit Israel today if Iran wanted to. But Iran, I think is waiting until these missiles can carry nuclear warheads.

With the peace process front and center since the 1990’s Israeli politicians have deluded themselves into thinking that Israel was no longer located in the Middle East, where the vast majority of Arabs wants to see 6,000,000 dead Jews and the end of Israel.

But rather Israeli politicians have allowed themselves to think that due to International pressure as part of the peace process that Israel would never again have to fight in regional wars. These so called leaders have let the lust of Israeli’s for peace; blind themselves to the sad fact that Ishmael and his sons still want us dead.

This has resulted in budget cuts on the IDF and a cut in training for our reserve soldiers. The fact that reserve soldiers that have not been given training for 5-6 years were given rifles and after firing two magazines from their M16 rifles were told to go to Lebanon and fight is criminal.

Second, Israel has made a mistake in how we have used the IDF over the last decade; the IDF does not belong in Judea and Samaria battling the Palestinians. This has taken the IDF away from their mission which should be limited to fighting external threats.

This does not mean that the threat from Palestinians to Israeli’s on a daily basis doesn’t exist. Of course it exists in the form of suicide bombers, shootings and kidnappings.

Using the IDF in Judea and Samaria has kept the IDF from training for a regional war and it has given the IDF a false sense of superiority.

Since Israel has retreated from Gaza, this area of conflict including the rockets that are shot out of Gaza as a daily fact of life should be the responsibility of the IDF and it should be fought as a real war, think World War Two.

The threat from the Palestinians living in Judea and Samaria, should be left to two organizations to fight, Shabak and Magav.

Shabak known in the USA as the Shin Bet, is the internal intelligence and investigation agency of Israel. They are as good as it gets.

The face of Israel in Judea and Samaria (west bank ) should be Magav, the Israeli Border Police, which is a paramilitary police force. Israel should focus their recruitment from the following three groups to build up Magav in order to meet the challenge, Druze citizens of Israel, American and Russian immigrants. All three groups have the stomach needed to do what needs to be done.

As part of the post Lebanon disaster a state of emergency must be declared and the problem must be fixed.

First for the IDF equipment must be purchased so that reserve soldiers have the best equipment possible. Second the IDF must stop paying attention to the cry babies in the Israeli society and reserve duty must not be cut. All combat reserve soldiers must count on 40 days minimum of service each year, which will be spent in training.

Second the security forces responsible for the war on Palestinian terror must be told it is a war and not a law enforcement action and the rules of engagement must reflect this.

No more games.

Israel must hunt down the terrorist and kill them. Foreign citizens that come to assist the Palestinians in either terrorism or demonstrations must start paying a heavy price.

The Palestinian Authority must be told that it no longer has a mandate since that mandate came from Israel in Israelis fantasy to obtain peace and since war and terror were delivered, it is time for the PA to go away.

Israel must make it clear, first ourselves that the Israel of old is back.