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JERUSALEM - Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes in southern Lebanon on Monday, hours after agreeing to temporarily halt raids while investigating a bombing that killed nearly 60 Lebanese civilians, mostly women and children seeking shelter. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert agreed to a 48-hour halt in the airstrikes beginning at 2 a.m. Monday while the military concludes its inquiry into the attack on the south Lebanese village of Qana.
Originally posted by subz
Is Tel Aviv actually in control of its armed forces? If there was a rogue element in control of the armed forces it would explain a lot actually.
Israel launched airstrikes just hours after officially agreeing to halt them.
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As Defense Minister, Peretz has shown himself to be more hawkish than previously thought. Probably, this is because he, along with the Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, are eager to prove that they are "tough on terror", given that neither of them has any military record.
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[Peretz] served in the Israel Defense Forces as a matériel officer in the 202nd paratroopers brigade and reached the rank of captain. During the Yom Kippur War in 1973, Peretz was badly wounded at Mitla Pass. He spent a year in the hospital recuperating. After leaving the hospital, he bought a farm in the village of Nir Akiva. Still in a wheelchair, he began growing vegetables and flowers for export.
Originally posted by subz
Far from it thomsonite, I was just being open minded to who might be pulling the strings in Israel. I believe Bush is a puppet of an elite cabal so why couldnt Olmert be just the same?
Originally posted by subz
PM Olmert and the his Defence Minister Peretz are the first Israelis to hold those positions and not have been veterans. Therefore it would not be without precedent to speculate that the Israeli military could ignore their authourity.
Originally posted by subz
But as far as the facts are on the ground, it matters little if Israel is being led by PM Olmert and the Knesset or a rogue military/industrialist cabal. It still remains that Israel is responsible for dozens more war crimes in the last few weeks. An addendum to an already prolific list of war crimes and gross human rights abuses.