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Commentary;
In this author’s opinion, David Horovitz’s piece on Winograd is undoubtedly the most succinct, to the point journalistic commentary to come out of Israel’s msm in recent memory. And it mirrors a point which this blog tried to hammer home; the dire need to deconstruct Israel’s governance, institutions and bureaucracy.
The same old, tired names, faces and modus operendi need to go, need to be forcibly retired from Israel’s governance and their spheres of influence severed; Olmert, Peretz, Peres, Barak, Ramon, Sheetrit, etc., and yes, Bibi, Sylvan Shalom, Eli Yishai and his Shas party hacks too!
Israel is in dire need of dynamic, moral, Torah-principled governance in all spheres; governing leadership, the military, education, finance, everywhere. Old-Boy protexia, graft and influence-peddling must be severed and ended. MB
Analysis: Winograd’s Dire Warning, By David Horovitz (Jerusalem Post)
“Israel ‘cannot survive in this region’ without ‘the political and military leadership, military capabilities, and social robustness’ to deter and if necessary overcome its enemies.”
Full Text;
Anticipation among critics of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that the Final Report of the Winograd Committee would hold him personally responsible for the deaths of 33 soldiers in the ground offensive during the last 60 hours of the Second Lebanon War has proved ungrounded. Indeed, the committee concluded that the cabinet’s decision to approve that offensive was not merely “legitimate,” but was “almost inevitable, giving the Israeli government necessary military and political flexibility.”
This conclusion means that Olmert, so nearly brought down by the interim report into the war last April, will likely overcome pressure for his resignation this time too.
The thrust of the report, however, was focused more on Israel’s survival than on Olmert’s.
In one of its central assertions, the report noted that Israel “cannot survive in this region” without “the political and military leadership, military capabilities, and social robustness” to deter and if necessary overcome its enemies. And in its withering depiction of the capabilities of the government and the IDF senior command that oversaw the Second Lebanon War, the committee made appallingly clear how absent those fundamental, existential qualities were.
The notion that senior Israeli political and military figures who held decisionmaking posts in the summer of 2006 and still retain those central roles today might consider this report to constitute any kind of vindication is frankly unsustainable.
“The proposed remedy simply must not be overlooked. What is necessary, the Winograd Committee finds, is nothing less than a complete overhaul of the governing of Israel: remaking the entire flawed political and military decisionmaking hierarchies, establishing an effective relationship between them where none exists today…”
Winograd’s meticulous depiction of the deficient understanding among our politicial and military leaders, “from the [war’s] very beginning,” of the “basic principles of using military power to achieve a political and diplomatic goal,” constitutes a damning and inescapable indictment.
The proposed remedy simply must not be overlooked. What is necessary, the Winograd Committee finds, is nothing less than a complete overhaul of the governing of Israel: remaking the entire flawed political and military decisionmaking hierarchies, establishing an effective relationship between them where none exists today, and setting up the staff (perhaps under a revamped National Security Council) to produce the necessary information on which decisions are based.
“Systemic and deep changes” are needed “in the modalities of thinking and acting of the political and military echelons and their interface, in both routine and emergency, including war. These are deep and critical processes,” the committee stresses. “Their significance should not be obscured by current affairs, local successes or initial repairs. A persistent and prolonged effort, on many levels, will be needed.”
The danger is that the imperative for this systemic overhaul will be marginalized amid the personal and political battling of the coming days. It is critical to Israel’s very survival that this not happen. We have been warned.
Yisrael Beiteinu: Expect More ‘Winograds’
Excerpt;
“‘The Second Lebanon War was a link in a chain of events that began with the Oslo accords, continued with the hurried withdrawal from Lebanon and Gaza, the yielding of security in Sderot and ended with the shameful failure in the Philadelphi Route and the Rafiah passage.'”
The Sentence from Winograd Reporters Ignoring, by Dr. Aaron Lerner (IMRA)
Excerpt;
“‘We have not found that the political echelon was aware of the details of the fighting in real time…'”
Kadima MK [Avigdor Itzchaky] Quits Over Report
Reserve Soldiers Say Olmert ‘Lacks Moral Authority’, Must Resign
Winograd: IDF Preferred Troops’ Safety Over Winning
Soldiers Fought Bravely, in Cause of a ‘Mistaken Conception’
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