{"id":1722,"date":"2006-09-21T23:36:17","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T21:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/21\/olmert-hezbollah-front-line-completely-destroyed-no-more-threat-of-hezbollah-on-northern-settlements-duh\/"},"modified":"2006-09-21T23:39:29","modified_gmt":"2006-09-21T21:39:29","slug":"olmert-hezbollah-front-line-completely-destroyed-no-more-threat-of-hezbollah-on-northern-settlements-duh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/21\/olmert-hezbollah-front-line-completely-destroyed-no-more-threat-of-hezbollah-on-northern-settlements-duh\/","title":{"rendered":"Olmert: &#8220;Hezbollah Front Line Completely Destroyed&#8230;. No More Threat of Hezbollah on Northern Settlements&#8221;  &#8212; Duh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1157913679338&#038;pagename=JPost\/JPArticle\/ShowFull\"><strong>Olmert Admits to Failures in Management of Lebanon War<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Excerpts;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;There were military mistakes during the war and in how to support the civilian population,&#8221; said the prime minister in an interview given to Channel 2, adding, &#8220;I always make mistakes, and the ultimate authority lies with me but the most basic decisions were not mistakes.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We could have got ourselves into even greater danger and been under fire from longer range missiles,&#8221; Olmert continued, claiming that hundreds of Hezbollah guerillas had been killed and the organization&#8217;s front line had been completely destroyed. &#8220;There is no more threat of Hezbollah on northern settlements,&#8221; he claimed. <\/p>\n<p>When asked if the appointment of Defense Minister Amir Peretz was one of his mistakes, Olmert snapped, &#8220;Stop exaggerating&#8230;He is the defense minister period! He will continue in this role,&#8221; pointing out that 15 percent of the Israeli public even voted for him to be prime minister. <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Hat tip to<\/strong> <a href=\" http:\/\/www.iris.org.il\/blog\/archives\/2005-Strong-Olmert-Least-Popular-Ever.html\"><strong>Barak of IRIS.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olmert Admits to Failures in Management of Lebanon War Excerpts; &#8220;There were military mistakes during the war and in how to support the civilian population,&#8221; said the prime minister in an interview given to Channel 2, adding, &#8220;I always make mistakes, and the ultimate authority lies with me but the most basic decisions were not [&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-1722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722","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=1722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}