Tel Aviv – Former prime minister and defense minister Ehud Barak was interviewed by Russian media outlet RT on Friday. He stated that it is his belief that the Islamic State “is not strong” and with an appropriate response, it would be possible to suppress and destroy ISIS within a matter of days.
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“I think that ISIS is successful to a certain extent because they are not facing a concentrated effort to destroy the organization,” said Barak, adding “Technically they aren’t that strong- they are made up of only about 30-40 thousand people.”
“Basically, what they faced in Ramadi (a town in central Iraq that was occupied by ISIS) and elsewhere in Iraq are armies that don’t want to fight. When an army doesn’t want to fight, you don’t need much experience to win,” said Barak.
“ISIS has never fought a real battle,” he added.
Islamic State militants said they had taken full control of Ramadi in May in the biggest defeat for the Baghdad government since last summer.
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Really? What about Hamas, which lives right next door and you had intimate military knowledge of them, and it took over 50 days just to make the missiles stop, without killing a significant percentage of its fighters? Barak sounds like Baloney.
Israel did not fight hamas,they tickled them, because their hands were tied by public opinion which is crazy.
Isis will go down with a real military operation quickly because the world wants Isis eliminated,especially the Saudis,Jordan,Egypt. etc
Hey. It’s been a while!
A Barak with brains !
#1 is right, the Zionists have become unable to win wars as they have more rules than weapons, BARAK was a horrendus prime minister that wanted to give all of Yehudeya and Shomron commonly refered by anti-Semites as the West Bank.
Well lets thank the President for the creation of ISIS. Unfortunately it will be his lasting legacy.
Polticians should have their mouths stappled shut.