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July 27, 2006
Yoni Update, Plus a Seraphic Rant
Let me say right from the outset that I myself did not hear Yoni. Karen filled me in a bit and so did Seraphic friend Lance, and I picked up some information through the internet. Here's what I've come up with. I apologize for any mistakes. They are mine and mine alone.
Yoni told Hugh Hewitt that there was a Security Cabinet Meeting in Israel.
During that meeting, a ground invasion was discussed and there was some apprehension about such an invasion.
IDF Chief of Staff Dan Chalutz said something about like, "We don't need to kill all of Hizbullah, that they can change."
Let me stop right here and say something I have been saying almost from the second week of the war: General Dan Chalutz must be relieved of command. Not since General Shmuel Gonen has Israel been saddled with a General so ill-suited to command the IDF in war. Not only is Chalutz an Air Force General, and thus parochial in outlook, and narrow in his strategic thinking, but he is known as a sniveling political animal. This commment about Hizbullah, a proudly genocidal terrorist gang, reveals him as a danger to the State of Israel -- and a moron.
PM Olmert should relieve Dan Chalutz of command immediately. To keep this incompetent as Chief of Staff reveals weakness and stupidity in the extreme. Moreover, has Olmert not realized that the war is in its third week and it is not going well?
Yoni, in disgust remarked that he wants a warrior not a social worker for the campaign.
On a more positive note Yoni said that the people of Israel are more united than he has ever seen in his life.
Seraphic Friend Lance reports that he heard from columnist Charles Krauthammer on FOX that there are serious divisions about the conduct of the war. The majority of Generals, not Dan Chalutz, want to go in and clean Hizbullah completely out with a full ground invasion. However, PM Olmert, Defence Minister Perz, and Tzippi Livni are getting squeamish. Krauthammer mentioned that he thought this would lead to a half victory that would leave Hizbullah intact to fight another day. The worst outcome possible.
Let us all remember that the present government is an accidental government, in office because of Ariel Sharon's illness. Ehud Olmert was a none too successfull Mayor of Jerusalem, a not very popular politician, a man widely perceived as a major political hack married to a leftist and dreadfully pretentious artist, with children who have either abandoned the state of Israel or who spend far too much time demostrating against the state, or harassing Israeli soldiers at check points. As for Defense Minister Amir Perez: he's a well known Socialist with absolutely no credentials to become Defense Minister. That Olmert, Perez and Chalutz are running The War of Tammuz is a national disgrace and explains why the IDF are stalled so seriously on the Northern Front.
I really I hope that I'm wrong, but I don't think so.
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at July 27, 2006 04:36 PM
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Robert,
When I heard these comments from Halutz...I wa stunned.
What does he think....They are going to have an epiphany and start to pass out out flowers and sing kumbaya?
However...the govt seems confused...they call up 30,000...yet..they announce no major grond offensive.
What are these guys going to do...have a mass picnic in the Golan?
And now...I hear that Condi is coming back to Jerusalem this weekend....I doubt the Chief Rabbi invited her for Shabbos.
Sigh....What a mess.
Posted by: Lance at July 27, 2006 06:00 PM
I thought Peretz gave a pretty fiery speach yesterday promising no stop to the campaign, it would be a shame if that was just political grandstanding. I'm hoping the delay is all about Israel making sure as many real civilians get out of the area before moving in with a stronger force. I'm probably too optimistic, but I'll give it a few more days.
Posted by: Jake at July 28, 2006 06:46 AM
Jake:
I hope you're right, but in the pit of my stomach I admit to terrible unease with Olmert, Peretz, and most of all Dan Chalutz. By now, we should see a grand strategy unfolding for this war, and frankly it's gurnicht mit gurnicht. He's an empty suit who should be relieved of command. That the same amount of Katuysha rockets are hitting Israel today as on the first day of the war shows that his campaign has been a massive failure.
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at July 28, 2006 07:08 AM
Hezbollah may have just made things easier. They just announced that they have fired their longest-range-yet rocket the Tibar I. Maybe that will end the fence-sitting.
Posted by: Jake at July 28, 2006 07:35 AM
Jake, I had the same thought. That rocket hit south of Haifa.
Posted by: Yehudit at July 28, 2006 08:14 AM
If you have an infection and do not finish the complete course of prescribed antibiotics, you weaken the infection but don't eliminate it. It then continues to grow, possibly getting even bigger. And now there's even the chance that it's immune to the cure.
(Not sure if that's entirely true but I like the analogy)
Posted by: ralphie at July 28, 2006 09:52 AM