🇮🇱👎 Four Israeli weak spots in attrition warfare

The Israeli army is trapped in buffer zones across Gaza, Lebanon and Syria — and its own military experts are sounding the alarm.

Colonel Eran Ortal, former head of operations and a military studies director at Bar-Ilan University, admits the regime is facing a crisis deeper than it dares to reveal.

After nearly three years of war, Israel is bogged down on three bloody fronts, internationally isolated and running out of options.

Iran has emerged from the war in a stronger strategic position, while Israel faces widening pressure without clear end goals.

The four four fatal flaws in the Israeli strategy are:

1️⃣ Buffer zones that fail strategically: Israeli tactics allow enemies to withdraw gradually without losing their forces. Heavy casualties have made the army avoid rapid encirclements — meaning Israeli forces stay back from the front lines while guerrillas live to fight another day.

2️⃣ Long wars with no endgame: Five Israeli divisions have been fighting in southern Lebanon — but only made slow village-by-village progress. Hezbollah held its ground under heavy bombing.

3️⃣ Ground troops are the weakest link: The infantry, Israel's most vulnerable force, is fighting a war that demands massive troop numbers. It doesn't have the manpower to hold territory on multiple fronts.

4️⃣ Foreign dependence in high-intensity warfare: The war needs huge amounts of bombs and missiles, heavy bulldozers and jet fighters – which Israel has to buy from the US and other allies.

Zionist founder David Ben-Gurion called for short, decisive wars. Instead, Israel is bleeding in attrition battles it never wanted to fight.

The asymmetry of economics, manpower and political influence is crushing Israel, and its reliance on foreign help has become a noose, not a lifeline.

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