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“Israeli” Army Redirects Budget Towards Developing New Weapons
In light of the recent social protests witnessed in the Zionist entity, clashes were erupted between the "Israeli" Finance Ministry and the War Ministry over the military spending.
On its part, the Finance Ministry demanded cuts to career army staffing levels, however the War Ministry published a harsh response to the aforementioned demands, "Israeli" daily Haaretz reported.
In the statement issued on Tuesday, the War Ministry stated, "Treasury officials have proved that they don't understand economics, society or "defense". Their hysteria has caused them to try to deflect public discourse from the real issues at hand".
On the level of reducing the number of staff, the Zionist War Ministry statement further added that the army's five-year-plan already includes reducing the number of career army personnel by 5%.
According to the Zionist daily, "Israeli" Chief of Staff Benny Gantz decided on the cut even before the wave of social protests, but now it is not sure whether the cut will be implemented as planned.
In this context, the daily explained that the goal of the said cut is not to reduce war spending, but to use the savings for other purposes, in particular developing and acquiring new weapons; as recommended by the 2007 Brodet Commission on war spending.
On another hand, "Israeli" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and War Minister Ehud Barak have reversed their position due to the social protests, after they had claimed that the turmoil in the Arab world required an increase in the war budget.
After the "Israeli" popular developments, both ministers are discussing ways to keep the war budget steady for at least another year and advance some critical military requirements.
This also comes amid calls by both Zionist ministers that the "Israeli" army training should not be compromised, especially after the "Second Lebanon War, during which some troops, particularly reserve units, performed poorly".
The poor performance was mainly regarded to the halt of training which extended to six years before the July 2006 war, a period during which the "Israeli" military preferred to investigate alleged Palestinian "terror", rather than advance their own military capabilities.
Source: Haaretz
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