Israeli Army About To Collapse Netanyahu Warned; Desperate Call For Conscription On Steroids

Israel has opened so many war fronts that it is now running short of soldiers, running short of public patience, and running out of time and money too. Right, so Israel’s Chief of Staff, head of the IDF Eyal Zamir has warned Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet that the Israeli army is running short of bodies and cannot carry on like this. Oh dear, how sad, never mind, we might just be starting this video, but already I have a sense of a great many very tiny violins all being broken out in sympathy with such news. Zamir is of course the top serving military officer, and the reporting out of Israel says he has told ministers the army could collapse into itself if they do not solve the manpower crisis they face, which was an issue long before they decided to make war on Iran and anyone else they felt like at the same time, from Gaza to Lebanon at that. Now it it is apparently existentially worse. Zamir has apparently raised ten red flags over this, though conspicuously no publication seems to have listed all ten – that pesky military censor doing the rounds I presume – but amongst the recommendations we do know about are a demand for a conscription law, a reserve-duty law, and a demand for even longer regular service. It doesn’t exactly scream in control does it? It’s coercion into military service whether you want it or not it seems. The army Israel sells to the world as permanently ready, permanently sharp, permanently one step ahead and very much the most moral, has had its own commander warning the political class that unless there is a dramatic, legally enforceable shift, they’re done for in effect.