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March 14, 2007
Deep Inside the Mind of IDF Intelligence
Michael Totten has a long, mesmerizing Q&A with an IDF intelligence officer over at his blog. I can't summarize it, but it ranges widely, with pictures, too! Here is one comment from his IDF source, on defining what Israel gained from last summer's war:
But there are other sides to the coin. I think Hezbollah's leadership and the Iranians take Israel a little more seriously now. They did not agree to end the hostilities for no reason. Nasrallah himself said he did not expect that kind of backlash. I believe they have a different image of Israel now. They saw the way we handle the territories -- where we tense up over every soldier that gets hurt -- and they made sure we would know they're waiting for us in south Lebanon, and that it is going to be costly to send ground forces in there. But this was not the territories -- tanks were getting hit all over the place, there were some very costly battles -- and Israel seemed like it could go on for a while. If you ask me, that is the truest victory. Apparently Hezbollah and the Iranians thought rocket barrages on Northern Israel would weaken us - the opposite was true.
Van | 03/14/07 at 07:28 AM | Categories: - Israel vs. the world
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Those 35,000 IDF troops, hundreds of tanks, and helicopters *REALLY* taught those 2000 "rag-tag" Hez fighters a lesson!
Well done IDF!
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jojo | March 14, 2007 06:01 PM
That sangfroid and intelligence bodes well for Israel's survival.
michael | March 14, 2007 07:51 PM
If they have so much respect, why haven't they returned the three kidnapped soldiers?
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