Now of course, this isn’t a patch on split pants but…. from Ynet and widely reported in Israel:
IDF Northern Command chief says in any future war Israel would use ‘ disproportionate’ force on Lebanese villages from which Hizbullah will fire rockets at its cities. ‘From our standpoint, these are not civilian villages, they are military bases,’ Maj.-Gen. Eisenkot tells Yedioth Ahronoth
and further down:
“This is not a recommendation. This is a plan. And it has been approved,” Eisenkot added.
The whole point of announcing this kind of thing is that the other side know it and believe it. You’ve got to follow through and damn the UN.
In other news the UN schedule all the planning sessions for Durban II (the next bash Israel on a major scale conference that they’re planing) on Pessach and Yom Kippur while taking days off for every major Muslim holiday. Coincidence? I don’t think so.
