{"id":913,"date":"2006-03-09T16:53:55","date_gmt":"2006-03-09T14:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/09\/halautz-ezra-seem-unable-to-get-their-stories-straight\/"},"modified":"2006-03-09T16:58:09","modified_gmt":"2006-03-09T14:58:09","slug":"halautz-ezra-seem-unable-to-get-their-stories-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/09\/halautz-ezra-seem-unable-to-get-their-stories-straight\/","title":{"rendered":"Halutz, Ezra Seem Unable to Get Their Stories Straight &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1139395562598&#038;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\"><strong>Halutz Contradicts Ezra at Amona Investigation<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1139395561807&#038;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\"><strong>Contradiction Between Testimonies of Ezra and Halutz<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/DanHalutzCOSTestifies.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/EzraTestifies.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/KaradiAndHisOddJob.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Excerpts; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Chief of General Staff, Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz, appeared before the Amona investigative committee on Wednesday. &#8216;In no way did I understand that the Amona evacuation was similar to the Gaza evacuation,&#8217; he said.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;The Gaza evacuation was an operation conducted against legal settlements, while Amona was about enforcing the law and order against illegal construction. Therefore I see no room to compare the two events at their base level,&#8217; said Halutz.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The first contradiction unearthed in the investigation was found between the testimonies of Interior Security Minister Gideon Ezra and Chief of Staff Halutz.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Ezra told the committee last week that security forces had to march all night, instead of using vehicles, because of roadblocks imposed by settlers. Halutz, however, said that &#8216;the initial plan called for a march on foot &#8211; altogether they marched over half an hour some two to three kilometers. The march was planned ahead of time,&#8217; said Halutz.<\/em>  But added that &#8216;there were roadblocks on the way.'&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Halutz said that he had allowed, in principle, for force to be used if necessary. But <em>only police officers with the rank of Assistant-Commander and higher had the authority to implement the use of clubs against protesters.<\/em>  He said that he banned the use of rubber bullets ahead of time.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halutz Contradicts Ezra at Amona Investigation Contradiction Between Testimonies of Ezra and Halutz Excerpts; &#8220;Chief of General Staff, Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz, appeared before the Amona investigative committee on Wednesday. &#8216;In no way did I understand that the Amona evacuation was similar to the Gaza evacuation,&#8217; he said.&#8221; &#8220;&#8216;The Gaza evacuation was an operation conducted against [&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-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913","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=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}