IDF Prepares to Call Up Reserves

Arutz Sheva ^ | 15/9/11 | Chana Yaar

[Eleutheria5]

he Israel Defense Forces are preparing for the possibility of Palestinian Authority Arab riots beginning September 20, when the PA will bring its statehood bid to the United Nations.

Israel's military will begin to call up its reserves, probably starting this Sunday, September 18, sources said Thursday.

Arutz Sheva has been informed that the residents of the Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria have warned the Arab residents of PA-controlled areas that if they approach the security fences surrounding their towns, the response will be “unequivocal.”

The warning comes in the wake of threats by PA Arabs to march on Israeli communities in the regions on September 20, the day PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas intends to ask the United Nations General Assembly to recognize the entity as a new Arab country, and grant it membership within the ranks.

Such a move would abrogate all prior agreements with Israel – such as the 1993 Oslo Accords, and the 2003 Roadmap Plan – that any final status deal would be reached through a negotiated settlement, and would come after all incitement against the Jewish State had been squelched in the PA.

[Eleutheria5]

Related: Israel Allows PA to Acquire Anti-Riot Gear http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/147916#.TnGeaKia-7U

[tet68]

The fuse gets shorter.

[Bobalu]

I hope the residents of the towns are heavily armed.
Start passing out Tavors and lots of clips.

[Eleutheria5]

They are lightly armed with rifles and pistols. But there are at least two military bases close at hand where I live, and most Israelis are also veterans. Even the over-seventy crowd might have served in the Jewish underground before 1948. Mainly, though, G-d watches over us.

[presently no screen name]

How they endure all of this, I’ll never know. God bless Bibi!

[presently no screen name]

You live there? WOW!

Mainly, though, G-d watches over us.

Yes He does and I was wondering how will He show His glory this time.

[Bobalu]

I can believe lots of Israeli oldsters have combat experience.
I read that Dr Ruth Westheimer was a sniper in the IDF.

She looks different today but I bet she can still shoot!

[Eleutheria5]

All of this is small potatoes. After almost two thousand years of helpless subjugation and humiliation, punctuated with occasional mass slaughter, we can now shoot back, and we have a home to defend. Tevye, thou shouldst be living in this day.

[American Constitutionalist]

" Yes He does and I was wondering how will He show His glory this time. "

What we do know from the bible, it will be for all the world to see.

[Popman]

Gee I wonder if Bibi got Obama permission first

/ S

[Evergolightly]

Obama’s appeasement policy has been a dismal failure, in fact I believe it has emboldened the radicals and hence you have the Arab Spring.

Our stupid misguided media elitists crowed about how wonderful this event was and now we have a solid base for the dream of a new Caliphate.

This powder keg will ignite and I hope Israel is ready. America will not come to her aid until after 2012.

[GAB-1955]

You aren't alone. I can see Mama Grizzly’s sons and daughters taking a few shots if need be in the defense of our friends and allies, though Obama will probably enforce the Neutrality Act with his usual petulance.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Eleutheria5.

[GonzoGOP]

The fuse gets shorter.

No Kidding. Israel has always had the ability to mobilize an enormous percentage of its population by calling up the reserves. Giving them an army equal in size, and much better trained, then their Arab neighbors. But the cost is that once mobilized their economy nearly shuts down. So while they can call up a massive world beating army in only about 24 hours, they have to use it quickly or bankrupt the country.

Israel can't just call up reserves for show. If they call them up it means they expect to fight and that the fight will be soon.

[tomkat]

If empathetic thoughts and martial best wishes are prayers, you and your countrymen have mine.

If I were CinC, you'd also have a carrier battle group parked nearby.

gebn zey gehenem !

[SJackson]

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[Jewbacca]

Well, bye, everyone.

Will send updates.

Going jogging and on crash diet.

[Eleutheria5]

You’re in the reserve? My nephew’s going in for his three years.