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398Dans l’après-coup de la mésaventure libanaise, détails et informations s’accumulent sur les questions les plus essentielles du comportement de l’armée israélienne: l’entraînement des troupes, la façon dont elles sont traitées, la façon dont elles sont ravitaillées au combat, etc. Ces questions touchent le cœur même des structures de Tsahal et montrent une situation absolument pathétique.
On observera une fois de plus combien le schéma de la mise à jour de la décadence de l’armée israélienne suit celui des forces armées américaines tel qu’il est révélé par l’Irak. Il y a là la même action d’un même état d’esprit bureaucratique, d’un même accent mis sur la technologie et les équipements avancés aux dépens de la situation des combattants, de l’aspect humain, etc.
Aucun doute. L’armée qui a été battue au Sud Liban par le Hezbollah, — car l’on peut parler sans exagérer de défaite, désormais, — cette armée est totalement une annexe du Pentagone, et elle est traitée comme le Pentagone traite ses armées.
Ci-dessous, quelques paragraphes d’un texte Washington Times/AP rendant compte de ce climat.
« “We fought for nothing. We cleared houses that will be reoccupied in no time,” said Ilia Marshak, a 22-year-old infantryman who spent a week in Lebanon.
» Mr. Marshak said his unit was hindered by a lack of information, by poor training and by untested equipment. In one instance, Israeli troops occupying two houses inadvertently fired at each other because of poor communication between their commanders.
» “We almost killed each other,” he said. “We shot like blind people. ... We shot sheep and goats.”
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» Some of the harshest criticism has come from reservists, who form the backbone of the army. Israeli men do three years of mandatory service beginning at age 18, but continue to do reserve duty several weeks a year into their 40s.
» Israeli newspapers quoted disgruntled reservists as saying they had no provisions in Lebanon, were sent into battle with outdated or faulty equipment and insufficient supplies, and received little or no training.
» “I personally haven't thrown a grenade in 15 years, and I thought I'd get a chance to do so before going north,” an unidentified reservist in an elite infantry brigade was quoted as telling the Ma'ariv daily.
» Israel's largest paper, Yediot Ahronot, quoted one soldier as saying thirsty troops threw chlorine tablets into filthy water in sheep and cow troughs. Another said his unit took canteens from dead guerrillas. “When you're thirsty and have to keep fighting, you don't think a lot, and there is no time to feel disgusted,” the unidentified soldier was quoted as saying.
» The newspaper said helicopters were hindered from delivering food supplies or carrying out rescue operations because commanders feared the aircraft would be shot down. In some instances, soldiers bled to death because they were not rescued in time, Yediot Ahronot said. »
Mis en ligne le 19 août 2006 à 14H04
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