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Friday War News…

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France Okays Firing at IAF Over Lebanon

Question: Does this look like an Israeli victory??

IDF: Gaza Terrorists Have Anti-Aircraft Capabilities

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IAF sources are worried that, pursuant to Hizbullah success to take down an Israel helicopter in Lebanon, terror organizations in the Strip will try to arm themselves with anti-aircraft weaponry.

“The threats of antitank and anti-aircraft missiles in Gaza are increasing and we are preparing for that,” said the officer.

“We understand that they are struggling against us, that they’re learning lessons from their own experiences and from Lebanon, and we can definitely see an increased effort to smuggle armaments into Gaza.” read more

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Halutz; Leave Now and Spare Israel, the IDF the Agony and Down-Time…

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The Halutz, Peretz Show – Slip, Sliding Away, By Anshel Pfeffer (Jerusalem Post)

“Halutz can spare himself the humiliation by preempting its conclusion.”

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The consensus is that Chief of Staff Dan Halutz is on the way out.

He might be talking about his plans for reform in the army and learning the lessons of the Lebanon War, but the advice he has received lately from trusted advisors is that in order to rescue what is left of his honor, he should wait for the last internal reports to be published – and after an interval of a few weeks, at the most a couple of months – decide the timing of his departure. read more

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Mediocrity, Complacency in IDF = Weaponry Left Unguarded = Weaponry Stolen by the Enemy, or Stolen and Sold to the Enemy…

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Gross Negligence

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On Friday The Jerusalem Post led its front page with a story which should have sent shivers down all our spines – not because it reported any disaster but because it exposed the symptoms of a potential, if not inevitable disaster.

Right on the border with Gaza – hardly a peaceful demarcation line – Post correspondent Anshel Pfeffer discovered no less than 17 armored combat vehicles left unattended, with quantities of ammunition and electronic equipment. Our reporter actually started one of the vehicles and began driving it. No guard so much as inquired about the movement. read more

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Say No to Rice; We Also Need Strength of Backbone to Say NO to Olmert …

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We Need the Guts to Say No to Rice, by Isi Leibler (Jerusalem Post)

“We are currently being led by people who seem to have forsaken any vestige of common sense…. They desperately need to cling to the coattails of the American administration.”

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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his successor Ehud Olmert justified unilateral disengagement on the grounds that we were obliged to take initiatives to break the impasse in the absence of a Palestinian peace partner.

In order to implement this, 7,500 Israelis were uprooted from their homes and even now, a year later, most have yet to be permanently resettled. Subsequent events, climaxing with the Lebanon war, demonstrated the disastrous repercussions arising from this policy. read more

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Winograd Committee = Evasion of Personal Responsibility for Fatal Failures…

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Yes, Heads Must Roll, By Moshe Negbi (Haaretz)

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It is not only the reserve soldiers who have difficulty considering the Winograd committee to be a reliable substitute for a state commission of inquiry. The judges sitting on the High Court of Justice have also showed their displeasure with the situation in which a person who is to be investigated appoints his own investigators. Justice Ayala Procaccia expressed doubts about whether a committee of inquiry could examine “so large a failure of the mechanism, such a colossal event,” when the central object under investigation is the government that appointed the committee. read more

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2 Related Statements By Effie Eitam: Transfer the Only Viable Option, But is Transfer Principle for Eitam?

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Eitam: Israel Must Begin to Face the Truth, Transfer the Only Viable Option

Having stated and re-stated his position on transfer, is this principle for Eitam, or perceived and changeable political cheshbon? For context, click here. MB

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Speaking with Army Radio’s Razi Barkai Wednesday morning, MK Effie Eitam (National Union-NRP) was asked to explain his terming of Israeli Arabs a “fifth column” and his call for Israel to encourage the transfer of PA Arabs from Judea and Samaria. read more

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A Visit to the Reserve Soldiers’ Protest in the Rose Garden …

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This author visited the reservists protest site at the Rose Garden on Sunday afternoon. The visit was both discouraging and disheartening at best.

After visiting the Quality in Government table and signing their petition calling for a state committee of investigation, they were asked how many people have signed the petition. The response; around 50,000 signers. About 100 meters further were the tables where reservists were sitting. One table was at street level and another was up, in the garden, along one of it’s paths. read more

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A 9/11-Like Commission for Israel?

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Create a ‘9/11 Commission’
From The Jerusalem Post

Not since the end of the 1973 war has there been such a pervasive sense that something fundamental is wrong with our political and military leadership. Even if this sense is exaggerated, the breadth of public distrust and discouragement is itself a problem that must be addressed.

The principal mechanism to begin restoring confidence in our leadership needs to be a proper investigation into the conduct of the war, how the problems the war revealed developed over time, and what must be done to fix them. read more

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The People’s Commission of Inquiry: General Elections …

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The Necessary Accounting By Caroline Glick

“Olmert and his colleagues require the fiction of Abbas as a moderate leader and the fiction of Fatah as a moderate counterweight to Hamas to justify their planned policy of retreating from Judea and Samaria.

It becomes self-evident that both the demand for Olmert, Peretz and Halutz to resign and the demand that an accounting be made of the mistakes that led Israel to its strategic defeat in Lebanon are necessary.

The only way that the proper lessons can be drawn is for the current military and political leadership to be replaced by alternative leaders capable of understanding the nature of the threats that surround us. For both objectives to be achieved, the only commission of inquiry that should be established is the inquiry of the citizens of the state that takes place in general elections.” read more

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Wednesday War News …

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Commentary;

Something seems amiss. For the past number of days, at least since Sunday, there is little war-related news to speak of from any of the major news sites, including Israel National News. In the view of this author, that this could suddenly be is unfathomable. This author’s guess is that big-time spin and censorship is at work as Olmert, Peretz, Halutz, etc. scurry around endeavoring to prove that Israel “won” the War in Lebanon and that there’s no need for an investigatory panel with clout. read more

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