Lebanon Lesson Unheeded? Avoiding Casualties at Cost of Mission Doesn’t Win War

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For previous blog posts regarding both the Winograd Report and the State Comptroller’s Report, click here and here.

Crybabies Don’t Win Wars, by Ron Ben-Yishai (Ynet)

IDF more concerned with avoiding casualties than completing missions

Excerpts;

One of the more widespread myths reinforced following the Second Lebanon War praised the remarkable performance of low-ranking combat soldiers and ground force commanders.

We were told that major- generals, brigade commanders, and some division commanders did not perform well – but most battalion commanders, platoon commanders, company commanders and their subordinates fought like lions and defeated Hizbullah fighters in every encounter. read more

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Shabbos War News: Iran to Fund, Arm Syria Big-Time

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Iran to Fund Syrian Arms Deals, by Roee Nahmias (Ynet)

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Tehran will help Syria fund future arms deals with North Korea and Russia, set up military plants there and back Syria on the Lebanon issue.

Iran will transfer a billion dollars to Syria for the purchase of 400 advanced T-72 Russian tanks, 18 MiG-31 warplanes, eight Sukhoi fighter jets and eight Mikoyan helicopters.

In addition, Iran will help Syria set up a mid-range missile manufacturing plant and equip the Syrian army with Iranian-made armored vehicles and tanks. read more

Does the Comptroller’s Report Only Address Unpreparedness in the North, or Nationwide?

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Commentary;

In a recent previous quote, this blog asked this question regarding the Comptroller’s report on the unpreparedness of the Home Front Command during last summer’s Lebanon conflict; Are there two Home Front Commands; one for the north which is being remediated, and one for the south which is being TOTALLY NEGLECTED?

The news report below provides evidence that this might indeed be the case. MB

Sderot Residents Protest Transfer of Shelters

Full Text;

Several Sderot residents barricaded themselves inside a mobile secure room on Friday in protest of a Defense Ministry decision to transfer the rooms from Sderot to the North. read more

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Regime Frees 256 Terrorist Security Prisoners, to Harm Jews Another Day

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For recent blog posts related to the prisoner release, click here and here.

256 Freed Security Prisoners Start Arriving at Beitunya, by Rebecca Anna Stoil (Jerusalem Post)

Excerpts;

256 Palestinian security prisoners started arriving at the Beitunya checkpoint, between Givat Ze’ev and Ramallah, at about 10 a.m. Friday morning after being released from Ketziot Prison in the western Negev.

Head of the Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria, Brigadier General Yoav Mordehai, met with senior Fatah official Hussein al-Sheikh and Palestinian Authority Minister for Prisoners Affairs Ashraf Ajrami at the checkpoint, ahead of the prisoners’ arrival. read more

Friday War News; Kassam Blitz, Mortar Shells and Casualties

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One Suffers Shock as Kassam Lands in Sderot [Friday Morning]

Related reports;

Terror Rocket Hits Sderot, Two Women in Shock (Update)

Kassam Rocket Lands in Sderot; Several People Suffer Shock

Kassam Hits Sderot; One Hospitalized

5 Mortar Shells Land in Western Negev, No Injuries Reported

Palestinians Open Fire at IDF; 7 Fugitives Caught

Palestinians Open Fire at IDF in Ramallah

Police Arrest 66 Illegal PA Arabs

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Less Money for Protection of Jews, More Money to Bomb Empty Fields?

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Commentary;

PM’s Office Director General Raanan Dinor:

“Abandon… providing protection to every citizen …. Instead…, the money… can be used for active operations, such as attacks against rocket launchers.”

Does this mean real attacks on rocket launchers, wherever they may be and even behind human shield? Or does it mean more “hit them very, very hard” = hitting empty fields? We probably know the answer to that one. MB

Related reports:
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Top Syrian Advisor: Pact ’85 Percent Done’, Israel Think-Tank Disagrees

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Related reports:

US has Evidence of Syria Arms Transfers [to Hezbollah, Other Terror Groups]

Peres Calls for Direct Talks With Syria [= Expulsion of Jews from Golan] if it Wants ‘Real’ Peace [sic], by Barak Ravid (Haaretz)

For previous pertinent blog posts regarding Olmert’s Syrian moves, click here, here, and here.

Israel-Syria Pact ’85 Percent Done’, by Yaakov Lappin (Ynet)

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Israel and Syria agree on “85 percent” of the issues which need to be resolved before a peace treaty can be signed between the two countries, a top Syrian advisor to President Basher Assad said, according to a former senior Israeli diplomat. read more

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Two Must Reads: On Comptroller’s Report, On Bribing and Appeasing Abbas

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Barak of IRIS has once again come through big-time regarding two of the three biggest threats facing Israel. These threats are not Hamas, not Abbas, not Hezbollah, not Syria, not even Irans’s Ahmadinejad.

Barak deals with two of the three biggest threats facing Israel in two links; one dealing with the State Comptroller’s report and the impact of corruption and protexia on Home Front unpreparedness during the Lebanon conflict and the other which impacts on bribery and appeasement of and submission, by way of huge funds transfers and release of terrorists, to enemies sworn to our destruction. read more

Thursday War News: Gaza Collision Coming Between PA-Hamas and Israel; Yesh(a) Heats Up; Syria, Egyptian Arms Smuggling

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Two Kassam Rockets Land Near Sderot; No Wounded

Related reports:

UPDATE: [Third] Kassam Damages Buildings in Sderot

Light Injuries in Rocket Attack in Sderot, by Hillel Fendel (Israel National News)

17% of [Terrorist] Prisoners Resume Terror Activity [Upon Release], by Etgar Lefkovits (Jerusalem Post)

Related report: 256 Prisoners [Terrorists] to be Released [on Friday]

For previous related blog posts, click here.

Kassam Rocket Lands in Sderot; 4 Lightly Wounded

Related reports:

Kassam Rocket Damages Two Sderot Houses read more

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Will Comptroller’s Report Have Clout? Will an Independent Commission, Prosecutions Emerge?

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Commentary;

Will today’s state comptroller’s report have teeth, clout?? Will it trigger the Knesset State Control Committee’s empowerment by law to order the appointment of a Judicial Commission of Inquiry on the Lebanon conflict?

The regime’s “senior defense officials said Tuesday that the country was prepared, ‘more than ever,’ for another war.” * They claim that;

“The IDF is prepared for a war today better than it was last year,” declared one defense official. “Combat units are trained and the Home Front Command is better prepared today to deal with a missile onslaught than it was last summer.” read more