Comments on: Changes in Israel

By: Sabba Hillel

Sabba Hillel — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:41:23 +0000

Livni looks good only in respect to Olmert. With the troika of Olmert, Peretz, and Livni we seem to have a crooked incompetent, a clueless ideological incompetent, and apparently a (relatively) honest incompetent.

As I said before, maybe they are attempting to bring the moshiach (Messiah) by ensuring that there is nothing that human beings can do to save Israel.

By: Joel

Joel — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:26:26 +0000

Good riddance to an incompetent Halutz and may the idiotic troika of the Joe Stalin lookalike Peretz, the imbecilic Olmert, and the bad make-up Livni soon follow. Giving Peretz the Defense Ministry is cause for being prosecuted for criminal negligence. Israel is one of the most corrupt democratic nations in the world.

By: Alex Bensky

Alex Bensky — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:17:55 +0000

There’s an old line that in a democracy people get the government they deserve. I think it was Amnon Rubinstein who, commenting on that, said that “only a vicious anti-Semite would say that about the people of Israel.”

By: chsw

chsw — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:39:13 +0000

The clock is not ticking in a countdown to Ehud Barak. It is more likely ticking down to his former platoon mate Netanyahu.

chsw

By: Ted

Ted — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:25:24 +0000

Even so, with all the problems the IDF encountered, at the end of the day (war) it was Israeli boots on Hezbollah land.

The UN ‘peacekeepers’ are in Lebanon to protect Hezbollah from the IAF/IDF; not the other way around.

Admitted Hezbollah war dead is now at 250. No one is certain what the eventually Hezbollah actual casualties will turn out to be.

All this after Hezbollah taking 6 years and vast sums of Iranian money and weaponry to make their land into a ‘killing ground’ against the IDF.

The MSM might have claimed a ‘great victory’ for Hezbollah, but the reality was somewhat different.

By: Cynic

Cynic — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:25:10 +0000

When you send reserves to the front with incomplete equipment and not enough food, there is something terribly, terribly wrong with the IDF.

And this was not a relatively recent happening. It stems from way back to before 2000. Mofaz was not much as a Chief of Staff and poorer as Minister of Defence.
Ayalon also has to answer for taking his eye off the “Northern” ball when training for the reserves went to pot and intel in its application to tactics was neglected; witness the shock at discovering in the hands of Hezbollah the communication and bunker network, Russian anti-tank missiles etc.