Times of Israel: Israel would need US military help to confront Iran, ex-deputy IDF chief says
Yair Golan says IDF 'must know its limitations' if it hopes to score a meaningful victory over the Islamic Republic
A former deputy chief of staff in the Israeli military said Israel would need the US military in order to confront Iran in a future outbreak of hostilities.
During a speech Thursday at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Maj. Gen. Yair Golan said regional jihadist groups that the Israel Defense Forces has managed to take on do not pose the same level of threat as Iran.
“We live in a world where we cannot operate alone not just because we have no expeditionary forces in Israel,” Golan said in remarks delivered in English.
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Update: Top IDF brass tells US Israel can't handle Iran alone (YNet News).
WNU Editor: The political will may exist in Washington to assist Israel in a war against Iran, but to assist Israel by declaring war against Iran in the event that those two countries are at war .... I have doubts that the U.S. public mood and appetite for such a conflict is there.
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