“Only that shall happen
Which has happened,
Only that occur
Which has occurred;
There is nothing new
Beneath the sun!” Kohelet, Ch 1, Verse 9.
Future Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, then serving as a General in the IDF, phoned America to solicit donations during the Yom Kippur war according to The Yom Kippur War by Abraham Rabinovich.
In the north, a battalion commander borrowed forklifts from his home kibbutz which was near his unit’s assembly area. General Sharon telephone a millionaire friend in the U.S. for binoculars. A shipment would arrive by air within a few days and be rushed to the front.”
There has been a common refrain since October 7th in which people “can’t believe” that the IDF is not prepared with equipment for its soldiers. It’s time that we change the narrative — it is completely believable that the IDF was not ready with the proper equipment: this exact script has occurred time and again.
Please help us fix the equipment shortage with a contribution to Unit 11741.