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Have the IDF, Government Learned, Integrated Lebanon’s Lessons?

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Commentary;

From all appearances of the Maariv report below, as conveyed by Dr. Aaron Lerner and IMRA, the answer seems a resounding and disastrous NO! MB

Maariv: Givati Brigade Exercise Find 71 soldiers Killed First 24 Hours in Simulation Entering Gaza, by Dr. Aaron Lerner IMRA

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Maariv correspondent Amir Buchbut reports in today’s edition that reservists in the Givati Brigade say a recent exercise they carried out practicing an invasion of the Gaza Strip found 71 soldiers killed in the first 24 hour of the invasion. The heavy losses were attributed to the major improvement in weapons and explosives that the Palestinians have amassed thanks to the long period during which they have been able to smuggle and prepare for battle. read more

With All of the Commissions of Investigation and All of the Findings, The Lessons of Lebanon are Lost on Dumb and Dumber

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They Would Not Listen, by Moshe Arens (Haaretz)

For context, click here.

“Rocket fire from Gaza occurs almost daily, endangering the civilian population in the south. It is a small-scale version of what happened in the north. Unless something is done about it soon, it will surely turn into a larger-scale version as time goes on. Yet our ground forces are not being ordered to put the Qassam rocket launchers out of range of our civilian population in the south.”

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Now that we are beginning to learn what was said in the inner councils – at meetings with the prime minister, at meetings of the ministerial security committee and at sessions of the Israel Defense Forces General Staff – it is becoming clear that our leaders just would not listen to opinions that were contrary to theirs while discussions were being held on the conduct of the Second Lebanon War. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and then chief of staff Dan Halutz stubbornly clung to their fantasy that the war could be won from the air, while Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni thought that we could get the UN Security Council to pull us out of this mess by calling for a cease-fire, leaving Hezbollah undefeated. read more

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Dumb and Dumber Will Never Learn Lessons of Lebanon Action

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Related Story:Peretz Orders IDF to Launch Operations Inside Gaza

Notice the wording in the report, as opposed to the banner headline;
“Defense Minister Amir Peretz… ordered the IDF to prepare to launch operations inside the Gaza Strip and against the infrastructure that enabled the suicide bomber who killed three people in Eilat earlier in the day to cross from Gaza into Israel.”

Related Story: PM, Peretz to Discuss Bombing Response

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“The identity of the terrorist organization responsible for Monday’s attack would help determine how Israel will respond.” read more

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Parshat Vayeishev 5779: The Fall and Rise of Yehudah’s Righteousness and Leadership — Lessons for Today’s Leaders in Israel

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Shalom Friends;

Our Parshat HaShevua Vayeishev is sponsored by Dr. Edo and Atara Lavi of Ramat Beit Shemesh .and dedicated for good health and continued development for Yishaya Shalom ben Malka (Blass) and Yiska bat Shoshana Batya (Fishman). To the Lavi family, many thanks for your sponsorship and your continued kindnesses.

You can celebrate a Simcha — a birth, a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, a Chassuna or other Simcha event in your life, or commemorate a Yahrtzeit of a loved one, or for whatever other reason by sponsoring a Parshat HaShevua. read more

Parshat Korach 5775: Lessons for Today from Korach, Two Wives and the Southern Side of B’nai Yisrael’s Encampment

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Shalom Friends;

This week, our Parshat HaShevua, Parshat Korach is being co-sponsored anonymously L’ilui Nishmas for the Yahrtzeit of Aharon ben Yosef z”l as well as by R’ Barak and Sarah Schecter L’ilui Nishmas for Barak’s grandfather, Yosef ben Yisrael David z”l. To our anonymous co-sponsor and to the Schecter family, many thanks for your co-sponsorships and for your continued kindnesses.

You can celebrate a Simcha — a birth, a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, a Chassuna or other Simcha event in your life, or commemorate a Yahrtzeit of a loved one, or for whatever other reason by sponsoring a Parshat HaShevua. read more

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Israel’s Security Dependence on Nations: Lessons Never Learned

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This author finds the logic of government officials and that of many Israelis incredible in it’s abject and profane absurdity.

That officials such as Pensioners’ Affairs Minister Rafi Eitan, the former intelligence official who rolled over on Janathan Pollard (one of the main reasons why Pollard remains incarcerated), can consider rolling back time to the days of UN Mandates which are breakable by the Arabs is insane and absurd.

If one has selective amnesia concerning the broken UN Emergency force mandate which was put in place as a result of Sinai campaign, one surely ought to be able to intellectualize the realization of the flawed Lebanon peacekeeping mission under whose noses Hezbollah has amassed 30,000 rockets and scream bloody murder at a regime which defines victory in a way which is not victory and who sets goals of “winning,” be it in Lebanon or in Gaza, as the one-sided placement of multi-national forces. MB read more

Lebanon and the Consequences of Lack of a Thorough, Thought-Through Military Plan

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Think Again: The Sages and Winograd, by Jonathan Rosenblum (Jerusalem Post)

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With Chag Shavuot coming tonight, Jonathan Rosenblum’s column adds a spiritual dimension to our current national crises.

There was a time in recent history, in Israel’s previous wars, where the IDF had the capacity to plan ahead, to plan not only the battle at hand, but to see the implications of the battle at hand and to plan two or three steps ahead and yet to improvise — or in NFL terminology; to “audible at the line of scrimmage.” read more

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Olmert’s Continuing Lebanon Delusions

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Olmert Says Lebanon War Was a Success, by Ronny Sofer (Ynet)

For context on some of the glaring failures last summer’s Lebanon action, click here, here and here.

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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Thursday evening that the second Lebanon war was a success.

Olmert spoke at a meeting with the Israel Defense Forces General Staff members, where he heard the lessons drawn from the war and praised Resigning Chief of Staff Dan Halutz .

The major conclusions and findings of the various teams that investigated the failures of the war were presented to the prime minister at the meeting. Former IDF Chief of Staff Dan Shomron, who examined the work of the General Staff, came to the meeting to present its actions during the war. read more

Dayenu 5784: The Hyssop and Blood — The One-Time Mitzvah and Today’s Israeli Government, Courts and High Command?

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Shalom Friends;

This year’s Pesach vort is being sponsored by Avraham and Miriam Deutsch and family of Efrat dedicated lilui nishmas for his Father: Mordechai ben Avraham Aba and Sara, for his Mother, Sara Rotza bat Tzion bat Avraham Yaakov and Chaya Leah and dedicated for the safety of the Chayalim and the liberation of all hostages and their return home whole physically, mentally and spiritually as well as for the good health and security of kol Am Yisrael. To the Deutsch family, many thanks for your sponsorship and for your continued kindnesses. read more

Parshat Terumah 5784: The Crown of a Good Name, Motivation and Credibility

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Shalom Friends;

This week, our Parshat HaShevua, Parsha Terumah is being co-sponsored both anonymously dedicated for Hatslucha to children of the community and by Rabbi Tully and Hindy Bryks of Ramat Beit Shemesh dedicated lilui nishmas for Hindi’s Father, Moshe Zev ben Yosef, z”l. Both co-sponsors also dedicate this vort for the safety of the Chayalim and the liberation of all hostages and their return home whole physically, mentally and spiritually. To our anonymous co-sponsor and to Mishpachat Bryks, many thanks for your sponsorship and for your continued kindnesses. read more