{"id":1590,"date":"2006-08-17T14:18:50","date_gmt":"2006-08-17T12:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/17\/just-what-other-things-was-army-busy-with-halutzs-stock-portfolio\/"},"modified":"2006-08-17T14:26:33","modified_gmt":"2006-08-17T12:26:33","slug":"just-what-other-things-was-army-busy-with-halutzs-stock-portfolio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/17\/just-what-other-things-was-army-busy-with-halutzs-stock-portfolio\/","title":{"rendered":"Just What Other Things Was the Planning Director Busy With?  Halutz&#8217;s Stock Portfolio?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1154525886496&#038;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\"><strong>Peretz Appoints War Inquiry Committee <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Excerpt;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;DM Peretz appointed former Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. (res.) Amnon Lipkin-Shahak to head external inquiry commission investigating the IDF&#8217;s management and preparation for war in Lebanon.  Defending the army, head of the army&#8217;s Planning Directorate Maj.-Gen. Yitzhak Harel: &#8220;We were prepared. We could have prepared more, but we were busy with other things.&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Commentary;<\/p>\n<p>What &#8220;other things&#8221; was the IDF PLanning Director busy with on the eve of a war anyway?  And how can former Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. (res.) Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, who held OJT Defense Minister Peretz&#8217;s hand throughout the war be expected to give unbaised, uncolored judgement as head of the War Inquiry Committee?  <\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t a more thorough, objective analysis and judgement come from the likes of Generals Giora Eiland, director of Israel&#8217;s national security council and Moshe Ya&#8217;alon, former IDF Chief of Staff preceding Halutz, or by State Controller Michal Lindenstrauss?  MB<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peretz Appoints War Inquiry Committee Excerpt; &#8220;DM Peretz appointed former Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. (res.) Amnon Lipkin-Shahak to head external inquiry commission investigating the IDF&#8217;s management and preparation for war in Lebanon. Defending the army, head of the army&#8217;s Planning Directorate Maj.-Gen. Yitzhak Harel: &#8220;We were prepared. We could have prepared more, but we were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}