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The Deputy Chief of General Staff spoke about past and future threats facing Israel
Nadav Deutscher
“The threats of the past that we learned to cope with during the Yom Kippur War are still standing firm, but on the other side perhaps because of that war, the threats have changed greatly. There is still a chance, however small it may be, that there will be a Syrian attack in the Golan Heights,” the Deputy Chief of the General Staff, Maj. Gen. Benny Gantz said on Monday (Sept. 20), while speaking at a Day of Learning in memory of Maj. (dec.) Benyamin Katzin who fell during the Yom Kippur War 37 years ago.
Maj. Gen. Gantz gave a briefing about the current security situation, emphasizing lessons learned from the Yom Kippur War. “The Syrian army has developed attack capabilities, by combining a number of different threats. The threats of the past have not changed, but have been added to new, different threats,” the Deputy Chief of the General Staff said. “The scope has grown and the strength is much more significant – this is the trend that the IDF is preparing for, while coping with challenges of mobility and camouflage.”
According to Maj. Gen. Gantz, “Iran is involved up to its neck in every terrorist activity in the Middle East. A nuclear Iran can destabilize the region and we must attribute much importance to this.”
“There is great importance to the national and societal unity in Israel. I believe and hope that at the end of the day, we will arrive at a situation whereby compulsory service is fulfilled by everyone and every citizen of the State of Israel recognize his obligation and responsibility to the country regardless of who he is. Much importance is places here on education. Looking from the past to the future, the understanding is that we must remember the past in order to learn from it,” Maj. Gen. Gantz added.
The Deputy Chief of the General Staff added that he spoke these words out of faith in the IDF and its capabilities. “We are preparing correctly and will do everything in our power in order to meet the coming challenges. I hope we will be flexible enough to face whatever we truly meet. This is the obligation of us all,” he concluded.
source:http://dover.idf.il/IDF/English/News/today/10/09/2099.htm
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