Lede: In October 1973, and again in October 2023, Israel suffered a breakdown in
political and military command. It could not have imagined that the Arabs were
capable or courageous enough to launch such a daring attack.
...
What Israelis forgot, or perhaps never realized, is that Israeli soldiers are
not brave, and certainly not invincible. For decades now, it has been shown
that, fighter-for-fighter, the Israelis are inferior to their Arab counterparts.
-- Cont'd at https://mondoweiss.net/2023/10/the-october-failures/
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