Joe settler has an important post for anyone who is still naive enough to think that the current set of Army brass in Israel are experts whose top concern is the safety of the population in EY:
Nine different Generals came to visit my friend’s reserve army unit after the war.
The Ramatkal (Chief of Staff) was also supposed to visit but after the hard time the 9 generals got he chickened out.
General Gantz (the head of all IDF ground units) came to the unit to explain what happened and to tell them we won the war (since it wasn’t obvious to anyone that we did). At the end he asked if anyone had questions.
One soldier got up, and said, “I have 2 questions for you, a personal question and an operational question.”
He continued, “My personal question is regarding the statement you made a year ago. You see I am a settler and I volunteered to fight in the IDF, and I want to know if after 100% of us settlers showed up to fight and die, do you still stand by your statement that "settlers are worse than Hizbollah"?”
For his second question he asked, “How come you sent in us ground units without first destroying all the enemy sniper positions and houses overlooking us?”
For the first question, he actually denied he said what he said, adding that “Aryeh Eldad is just trying to get brownie points”, but then he said that he doesn’t take back a word of what he said. I guess that means he did say it and still thinks its true.
Regarding the second question, he answered the tanks destroyed most houses marked as Hizbollah sites.
Unfortunately Gantz forgot to mention that most of the houses were apparently not marked.
At this point, the flustered Gantz had enough and ran away like all the other generals that visited this elite reserve unit.
