The real reason that the IDF was unprepared

This article - which appeared in yesterday's JPost, although I could not find it online yesterday - hits the nail on the head. The author, Shmuel Katz, is one of the last remaining lions of the founding generation of the Herut party - one of the parties that merged to form the Likud. Katz co-founded the Herut Party with Menachem Begin and was a member of the first Knesset. Katz has Begin's kind