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| General staff presents war reports to Olmert |
| 2007-01-26 |
| Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met Thursday evening for some four hours with the IDF's general staff to hear the findings of the various committees set up to draw conclusions from the summer's war in Lebanon. Some 50 committees were set up inside the IDF to investigate and evaluate the army's performance during the war. Former Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. (res.) Dan Shomron presented Olmert with the conclusions of a committee he headed that looked into the overall performance of the general staff during the war. Incoming chief of staff Gabi Ashkenazi, according to government sources, will now be expected to implement the lessons drawn from the war. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Since we always win the wars and always lose the peace, real danger to Israel is from "moderate" Arabs. Israel benefited enormously from Hamas takeover (without it USA would be pressuring us to quit West Bank now). Once Lebanon becomes Hezbollahstan, IDF will be able to "bounce the rubble" without anybody who matters (USA again) objecting. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-01-26 20:00 |
| #4 Mike N. question regarding the time line on the Cedar Revolution, how could it have succeeded for decades? PS Grom, have to believe to some extent Israel has benefited from Hamas assuming control over Palestine based on red on red versus on Israeli's. Also, Israel benited to some extent from the Lebanese civil war as the "factions" were preoccupied with each other. Siniora is a fop if he weren't Hezbollah never would have been attacking Irael on it's own. |
| Posted by: Rightwing 2007-01-26 14:24 |
| #3 I wouldn't say it was a failure, just that Israel didn't accomplish what its people desired. That's nothing new when it comes to war - for any nation. And, when will the world give up on the cedar revolution. Its proven for decades that it did work. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2007-01-26 09:38 |
| #2 Olmert should go---but not because of the Lebanon war. He gave exactly the right orders to IDF. It's not his fault (he didn't appoint a flyboy to be Chief of Staff, and it wasn't Olmert who been cutting ground forces training budgets for a decade) that IDF didn't deliver before USA backstabed Israel---to save their pathetic Cedar Revolution. And you should be careful before saying that the war didn't succeed. If Hezbollah takes over---Lebanon exactly were Israel needs it. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-01-26 06:18 |
| #1 In order to enact the lessons drawn from the war they will have to send Olmert and Peretz home. If they don't, they didn't enact the most important lesson of all. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2007-01-26 00:50 |