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Israel’s New Chief of Staff Has Tough Stance on Hezbollah | Washington Free Beacon
JERUSALEM—General Gadi Eisenkot, appointed Sunday by the Israeli government as the next armed forces chief of staff, has warned in the past that Israel will not hesitate in the next round of fighting with Hezbollah to use “disproportionate force” against any Lebanese village from which rocket fire is directed at Israel.
Virtually all Israeli media reporting on Eisenkot’s appointment has cited an interview he gave the newspaper Yediot Achronot in 2008 in which he spelled out Israel’s policy in any coming confrontation. Instead of trying to determine from which plots within Lebanon’s 160 Shiite villages rockets were being fired, he said, a village will be considered to be a military base if any rockets at all are fired and the entire village will be subject to indiscriminate air or artillery attack.
Eisenkot referred to the Israeli Air Force’s leveling of the Hezbollah-controlled neighborhood of Dahariya in Beirut in the opening hours of the 2006 war with Hezbollah. “This will be the fate of every village from which Israel is fired on,” he said. “This is not a recommendation. This is a plan. And it has been approved.” Eisenkot said that warnings would be issued to villages that are targeted—presumably by leaflet and local radio wave lengths—to permit the villagers time to escape.
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The general also said that Israel will not spare Lebanon’s national infrastructure in any future conflict as it largely did in 2006. Israel at the time distinguished between Lebanon, the sovereign nation, and Hezbollah, the Shi’ite militia. Given Hezbollah’s virtual takeover of the country, he said, such a distinction will not be made in the future. This presumably means that power stations, airports, roads, and water distribution points would be targeted.
A similar view was expressed in a paper by Col. (res.) Gabriel Siboni, a former senior army planner, in a paper published by the Institute of National Security Studies in Tel Aviv. He suggested that even before the air force turns its attention to missile launchers, it go after “economic interests,” “centers of civilian power,” and “state infrastructure” to increase deterrence and tie up resources in reconstruction.
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They are openly declaring to the world that they practice carpet bombing with modern weaponry that is devastating. No one declares their actions as terrorism/war crimes.
Btw, can someone define to me what 'centers of civilian power' are?
JERUSALEM—General Gadi Eisenkot, appointed Sunday by the Israeli government as the next armed forces chief of staff, has warned in the past that Israel will not hesitate in the next round of fighting with Hezbollah to use “disproportionate force” against any Lebanese village from which rocket fire is directed at Israel.
Virtually all Israeli media reporting on Eisenkot’s appointment has cited an interview he gave the newspaper Yediot Achronot in 2008 in which he spelled out Israel’s policy in any coming confrontation. Instead of trying to determine from which plots within Lebanon’s 160 Shiite villages rockets were being fired, he said, a village will be considered to be a military base if any rockets at all are fired and the entire village will be subject to indiscriminate air or artillery attack.
Eisenkot referred to the Israeli Air Force’s leveling of the Hezbollah-controlled neighborhood of Dahariya in Beirut in the opening hours of the 2006 war with Hezbollah. “This will be the fate of every village from which Israel is fired on,” he said. “This is not a recommendation. This is a plan. And it has been approved.” Eisenkot said that warnings would be issued to villages that are targeted—presumably by leaflet and local radio wave lengths—to permit the villagers time to escape.
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The general also said that Israel will not spare Lebanon’s national infrastructure in any future conflict as it largely did in 2006. Israel at the time distinguished between Lebanon, the sovereign nation, and Hezbollah, the Shi’ite militia. Given Hezbollah’s virtual takeover of the country, he said, such a distinction will not be made in the future. This presumably means that power stations, airports, roads, and water distribution points would be targeted.
A similar view was expressed in a paper by Col. (res.) Gabriel Siboni, a former senior army planner, in a paper published by the Institute of National Security Studies in Tel Aviv. He suggested that even before the air force turns its attention to missile launchers, it go after “economic interests,” “centers of civilian power,” and “state infrastructure” to increase deterrence and tie up resources in reconstruction.
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They are openly declaring to the world that they practice carpet bombing with modern weaponry that is devastating. No one declares their actions as terrorism/war crimes.
Btw, can someone define to me what 'centers of civilian power' are?
