Senior officer: IDF ready for any war

After investing millions of shekels in upgrading and refilling stockpiles depleted during Operation Protective Edge three years ago, the IDF is prepared for any war, a senior officer in the Logistics and Technology Directorate stated on Thursday.

“The army is in a completely different place than it was in 2014,” he said at a briefing with reporters in central Israel, adding, “If a war breaks out on both the northern and Gaza borders, the IDF is ready.”

As part of the five-year Gideon Plan, the military has invested millions of shekels in building up supplies for combat operations, including ammunition,

down fascism,” the statement added, and was a “universal commemoration of the victims of the Shoah and condemnation of its perpetrators.”

Trump landed in Poland on Wednesday, ahead of the G20 meeting of world leaders in Germany this week. On Thursday, he spoke at the Warsaw Uprising Monument on Krasinski Square.

However, that monument celebrates the acts of resistance fighters from the general population of Poland who carried out a bloody rebellion against the Germans in 1944. The Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, situated approximately 1.6 km. eastward, commemorates specifically Jewish partisans who rose up against the Germans in 1943 in a doomed uprising.

The visits by US presidents to the monument for the Jewish rebellion were gestures that, to Polish Jews, “meant recognition, solidarity and hope,” the three leaders wrote.

“We deeply regret that President Donald Trump, though speaking in public barely a mile away from the monument, chose to break with that laudable tradition, alongside so many other ones,” they added. “We trust that this slight does not reflect the attitudes and feelings of the American people.” (JTA) •