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More Than Olmert, The Governing System Which Made Him Bears Full Blame for Lebanon Debacle and Must Go!

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Commentary;

This author will agree that Ehud Olmert bears full and total responsibility for the debacle which was the Lebanon conflict. But the current normative Israeli political culture and governing system of corruption and evasion of responsibility, of which Ehud Olmert, Haim Ramon, Barak, etc. are products, must be dismantled, eradicated and replaced by a faith-based government of principle appropriate to the role of B’nai Yisrael in eyes of the world. When the corrupt little men; Olmert, Barak, Ramon, Lieberman, Beilin, Sarid, Netanyahu and more are gone from the political, governmental stage, hopefully this will mark a time when corruption, cheating, protexia and evasion of responsibility will no longer be engrained in the people’s derech. read more

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Will the Teflon Olmert Wiggle Out of Lebanon Responsibilities, Police Investigations?

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‘Winograd Won’t Recommend Firing PM’, by Dan Izenberg and Gil Hoffman (Jerusalem Post)

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The Winograd Committee on the Second Lebanon War will not make recommendations for sanctions to be taken against anyone involved in the failures of the government during and leading up to the war, Channel 2 and the Ynet news site reported on Monday.

This means the panel will not have to issue any cautionary letters and will be able to publish its final report before the end of the year, according to Ynet. If the reports on the letters of caution are true, witnesses will not have to hire lawyers, study the evidence against them and argue their cases before the committee, a procedure that was expected to have delayed the final report by many months. read more

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Sunday War News; Kassam Blitz, Hezbollah Buying Up Lebanon Land, Arrests

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Kassam Attack, No Injuries

3 Kassam Rockets Land Outside Sderot; None Hurt

3 Palestinians Arrested for Molotov Cocktails

Stones Thrown at Israeli Woman Near Ramallah

4 More Palestinian Fugitives Arrested Near Nablus [Shechem]

Weaponry and Drug Smuggler Caught in Samaria

3 PA Fugitives Arrested Overnight

‘Hezbollah Buying Land North of Litani’

Excerpt;
“At 16 kilometers from the border, the lands allegedly purchased are within rocket range of Israeli cities.”

Palestinian Carrying Knife Arrested Near Ramallah read more

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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

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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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What Israel’s MSM Doesn’t Tell Regarding Surviving Families of Lebanon Fatalities

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To those who don’t know about Olmert’s disdain for the very soldiers who fought with the most valour during last summer’s Lebanon conflict, Horovitz’s piece may seem a very sensitive human interest story centering around Yeshiva Bnei David where the 3 religious soldiers who were fatalities in last summer’s Lebanon conflict learned and around the Yeshiva’s philosophies; “to bolster religious Zionist soldiers’ spirit, commitment and motivation to protect Israel” as well as, “awareness that senseless internal hatreds destroyed our previous efforts at Jewish sovereignty” and telling students during the expulsion from Gush Katif “not to abandon their units…. We stick together through thick and thin.” read more

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Commemoration of Last Year’s Lebanon Conflict: Shameless Olmert a No-Show

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Simply Despicable

Israel Commemorates 2nd Lebanon War (Jerusalem Post)

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“The first state ceremony for the country’s most recent war was scheduled to take place at 6 p.m. on Mt. Herzl in Jerusalem. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert… will be absent from the Mt. Herzl ceremony. Olmert decided not to attend to spare those in attendance the rigorous security checks that the prime minister’s presence would entail, Army Radio reported.”

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The Two Major Causes of the Lebanon War Which Winograd Failed to Take Note of

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What Winograd Missed, by Yehuda Poch (Israel National News)

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The ‘Then Maybe They Will’ Doctrine, by Prof. Steven Plaut
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Column One: Statecraft in the Absence of Statesmen, by Caroline Glick (Jerusalem Post)

Commentary (MB)

Yehuda Poch writes about former IDF Chief of Staff Amnon Lipkin Shahak’s recent radio interview. The interview came down to one crucial statement;

Shahak: If rocket attacks extend to include Ashkelon, then there might be no choice but to occupy Gaza. read more

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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)

Commentary;

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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Winograd Committee: Deliberately Covered Over of Ideological and Cognitive Failure of Regime, Israeli Establishment Leading to Lebanon Outcome

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Column One, by Caroline Glick (Jerusalem Post)

“The report’s concentration on the personal failures of the three men serves mainly to strengthen the Left’s push to place all the blame for the war’s dismal outcome on the personal incompetence of Israel’s leaders. This it does by deliberately ignoring the ideological and cognitive failure of the government and the Israeli establishment as a whole. It was this failure that led to the war and to its dismal outcome.” read more

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The Dire Consequences of Olmert’s Stonewalling the Truth About His Conduct of Lebanon Conflict

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For related reports, click here and here.

Commentary;

Will Olmert, Peretz, Livni and Peres successfully stonewall investigations long enough to remain in power long enough to stumble and bumble us into another war for which they have apathetically made the IDF totally unprepared for? MB

At This Rate, We’ll Lose the Next War, Oded Shelo (Ynet)

“‘The bag holds your emergency gear. Check that everything is inside.’ When I did, I discovered equipment that looked as if it had been used by Jewish fighters during the War of Independence. read more

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