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August 17, 2006
The State of the Israeli State
So Syria is planning to start its own Hizbullah now:
On the heels of what it views as a Hizbullah victory against the Jewish state, Syria is forming its own Hizbullah-like guerilla organization to fight Israel in hopes of "liberating" the Golan Heights, an official from Syrian President Bashar Assad's Ba'ath party told WorldNetDaily yesterday.Does anyone understand why Olmert didn't strike Syria in the first days of this war?
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Syria learned from Hizbullah's military campaign against Israel the past month that "fighting" is more effective than peace negotiations with regard to gaining territory.
He said Syria's new guerilla force would be trained by Hizbullah leaders.
"Syria is very serious about establishing this new guerilla force," the official said.
And now Peretz is trying to blame the military for not telling him about Hezbollah's missiles.
When Defense Minister Amir Peretz took office four months ago, Hezbollah and the missile threat were at the bottom of the priority list senior IDF officers presented him, Peretz says. In private conversations over the past few days, Peretz said officers did not tell him there was a strategic threat to Israel, and did not present him with all relevant information about the missile threat.How ludicruous was it that he was appointed Defense Minister in the first place? As though it were an insignificant appointment.
Fortunately, Olmert is now involved in a financial scandal, having to do with the purchase of his apartment, which may provide everyone a convenient opportunity for his exit.
Here is the news: Aliza and Ehud Olmert will be summoned to an investigation in the State Comptroller's office within a few days.Much as I admired Ariel Sharon, one can only ask, with respect to Olmert and his leadership of Israel, what was he thinking? Clearly, he wasn't thinking much past his own term and expected his legacy to carry the day. And, maybe, in the end, even he got tired. Or wanted to badly to redeem his international reputation.The prime minister and his wife will be presented with these findings: The price they paid for their new house on 8 Cremieux Street in Jerusalem is lower than its market price by hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The difference between the sum they paid - some $1.2 million - and the house's value - $1.6-1.8 million - is hard to explain. It raises suspicion that the prime minister and his wife illicitly received about half a million dollars.
In any case, he never would have conducted a campaign like Olmert. There would have been no war or a much tougher one.
Alcibiades | 08/17/06 at 11:33 AM | Categories: Eretz Yisrael
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Comments
I thought Hezbollah was Syria's Hezbollah. Why do they need another one?
Robert Schwartz | August 17, 2006 12:54 PM
Hezbollah is Iran's not Syria's. Syria wants to start its own "resistance" to get back the Golan now that they see how successful Hezbollah has been in Lebanon.
Alcibiades | August 17, 2006 01:16 PM
Typical bureaucratic finger-pointing when something goes wrong. None of them are statesmen. Feh.
Judith | August 17, 2006 02:52 PM
Why don't we and Israel start our own Hizballah ..we can call it Gribinez, and we can just attack any arab, persian or anyone who looks like they might tend to be a muslim or other objectionable, any embassy, any school, any bus, anywhere, anytime and call it resistance. Then we can take our mentally unstable, sick them on families on EID and have the mentally injured bash out the brains of pre school girls, and tell the world the killers are OUR heroes.
Then we can start a war to get them out of jail, and when we hide among the people getting them killed, while launching cheap old weapons we can't control say we won a great victory.
epaminondas | August 17, 2006 04:09 PM
Syria wants it's own Hizbullah? That is besides all the terror groups it currently plays host to.
As for why Sharon put Olmert in as #2; look who is number #3 on the Kadima bench--Shimon Peres. IT looks like the placement of Olmert, as a popular public figure, was also a move to prevent Peres from becoming PM again (thankfkully).
And I've still been disgusted by the fact that Peretz became DM
jaws | August 17, 2006 08:55 PM
Israel could not engage Syria directly because Syria was operating via Hezbollah. Syria already has its own Hezbollah, it just happens to be ensconced in Greater Syria, better known as Lebanon. This "threat" boils down to nothing more than being able to skirt UN Res. 1701 by redeploying armed "un-uniformed" combatants.
Thomas Sowell, a black Christian commentator, wrote the following in the Jewish World Review:
"How many cease-fires have there been in the Middle East - or is the number too large to remember? Over the past half century, there must have been more cease-fires in the Middle East than in the rest of the world combined.
What will this latest cease-fire do? It will give Hezbollah a breather from Israeli retaliation and allow them time to get new shipments of military equipment from Iran, rebuild their military infrastructure and prepare for the next round of attacks on Israel.
Why do these phony cease-fire scenarios keep getting repeated? Because there are too many people, including many in the media, who take the corrupt windbags at the U.N. seriously - so our political leaders have to act as if they take the U.N. seriously as well.
This is a costly charade. Among its costs are human lives. U.N. cease-fires are the ultimate in feel-good decisions made by people who pay no price for the repercussions."
How sadly true.
Lynne | August 18, 2006 11:22 AM
Can any one tell me how troops that are at best capable of manning defensive fortifications are going to be capable of taking anything?
This is not just bluster. It is hallucination.
Israel has good troops poorly lead, and inadequately supplied, and still they pushed the hizzes where ever they wanted. When finally cut lose the troops surrounded south Lebanon.
Israel bombed what it wanted. Shelled what it wanted. Took what it wanted.
Hizbollah amounted to a speed bump. At best.
I don't get the Syrian move. Unless Assad has decided to cut back on military expenditures and replace an army of potential coup plotters with reliable troops with the capability of manning fortifications. i.e. troops with very limited mobility.
While at the same time Israel is going to up its defence spending and fix its leadership problems. And it has a population burning for revenge.
http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/2006/08/shorter-aftermath.html
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| August 21, 2006 10:01 AM
Let me try that again:
M. Simon | August 21, 2006 10:03 AM
