Israel was expected to intervene in the Lebanon fighting.
Posted by morris108 on May 16, 2008
Franklin Lamb is saying that Israel was expected to intervene in the recent Lebanon fighting. But in the event Hezbollahs actions were so quick and effective, that Israel got cold feet. Lamb’s speciality throughout this Lebanese upheaval has been thorough and streetwise. It all leaves one wondering what the schemers were concocting in Jerusalem this week.
http://www.counterpunch.org/lamb05162008.html
May 16, 2008
A Sudden Case of Cold Feet
Did Hezbollah Thwart a Bush/Olmert Attack on Beirut?
By FRANKLIN LAMB
This week Israel’s Military Intelligence Chief, Major General Amos Yadlin complained to the Israeli daily Haaretz that “Hezbollah proved that it was the strongest power in Lebanon… stronger than the Lebanese and had it wanted to take the government it could have done it,” He said Hezbollah, continued to pose a “significant” threat to Israel as its rockets could reach a large part of Israeli territory.”
Yadlin was putting it mildly.
But what Intelligence Chief Yadlin did not reveal to the Israeli public was just how “significant” but also “immediate” the Hezbollah threat was on May 11. Nor was he willing to divulge the fact that he received information via US and French channels that if the planned attack on Lebanon’s capitol went forward that Tel Aviv was subject, in the view of the US intelligence community to “approximately 600 Hezbollah rockets in the first 24 hours in retaliation and at least that number on the following day”.
The Israeli Intel Chief also declined to reveal that despite Israel’s recent psyche-war camping about various claimed missile shields “the State of Israel is perfecting”, that this claim is being ridiculed at the Pentagon. “Israel will not achieve an effective shield against the current generation of rockets, even assuming no technological improvements in the current rockets aimed at it, for another 20 years.
(Go to counterpunch to read the rest, Link above)
