Aftermath of 2002 Shehadeh attack (AP)
When I first read the headline in Haaretz, Panel to Look into Civilian Deaths in 2002 IAF Attack on Shehadeh I was pleased and surprised that one of the bloodiest civilian massacres of recent IDF history would finally be investigated. But I quickly realized that there is probably less [...]
Haaretz publishes an eye-opening inside account of the General Staff deliberations that went into the planning and execution of the IDF strategy during the Lebanon war. It shows a curiously tentative and hesitant set of senior commanders who propose ideas only to see them dismissed by chief of staff Halutz; after which the same [...]
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Israel has reached an inauspicious milestone of sorts. It has crossed the century mark in terms of combined civilian and military deaths in this war. Billmon does something interesting (albeit ghoulish) math tonight to compute how many more Israeli soldiers could be killed if Olmert chooses to advance to the Litani:
Let’s do some [...]
3 year-old Natan Mor calling out for his father, who sustained serious injuries during the Katyusha rocket assault on northern Israel (photo: Rina Castelnuovo/NYT)
Latest news: Haaretz reports that an Israeli grandmother and her five-year old grandson were killed and four others injured by Hezbollah rockets which landed in Moshav Meron on Friday evening. Ha-makom [...]
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