“I’d love to tell Israelis how we protect them, but then the enemy would adapt”
This is the headline of an article featuring the interview, by David Horovitz of the Jerusalem Post, with IAF’s Major-General Eliezer Shkedy. It seems the Israelis understand the concept of keeping their islamofascist enemies in the dark about just exactly how they protect Israeli citizens.
This stands in stark contrast to how the editors at the New York Times and the L.A. Times behaved when they brazenly decided to reveal details of an effective and ongoing counter-terrorism operation.
“I’d love to tell Israelis how we protect them, but then the enemy would adapt”
A long-scheduled interview with Israel Air Force chief Maj.-Gen. Eliezer Shkedy, timed for the IAF’s annual “Air Force Day,” happened to coincide with this week’s “Operation Summer Rains” offensive in Gaza, launched after the killing of two soldiers and the capture of Cpl. Gilad Shalit near Kerem Shalom.
Seated behind a completely clear desk in his office in the “Kiriya” military headquarters in Tel Aviv, Shkedy, who was appointed to his position two years ago, radiates a palpable sense of calm and reassurance, even when discussing the most acute challenges facing the IAF. During the more than an hour he spent with The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday, the Gaza offensive was developing, and his pilots had hours earlier targeted bridges and power installations in the Strip. Yet he was entirely unruffled throughout, and at no point interrupted our conversation to hear an update of external events.
It’s a long article, you can read it here.