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True in 48, most definitely not true in 67 and 73.
The Israeli airforce was superior to the competition in both of those conflicts(logistics, training, weapons, and airframes).
In 1973 the Israelis had better tanks than the Egyptians or Syrians, with better trained crews, but the Israeli Army charged right into a well laid Egyptian trap(because they were so smugly overconfident and so fully underestimated the Egyptians), and got themselves mauled. Then the same exact thing happened to the Israeli Airforce when it went charging straight to the fight to support the ground forces and got caught in a well coordinated forward egyptian SAM screen, and chewed to pieces.
The above to me proves that the IDF is anything but unbeatable, nor above SERIOUS tactical and strategic errors, even against 'inferior' opponents.
The reality is that the Egyptians laid a terrible whippin' on the IDF in the 1973 war, and only Syrian indecision and incompetence saved Israel from fighting a desperate last battle for survival in her cities.
Israel came this close to losing...
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