{"id":8,"date":"2006-07-22T13:20:58","date_gmt":"2006-07-22T10:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/index.php\/2006\/07\/22\/amateur-mistkes\/"},"modified":"2006-07-22T13:20:58","modified_gmt":"2006-07-22T10:20:58","slug":"amateur-mistkes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/2006\/07\/22\/amateur-mistkes\/","title":{"rendered":"Amateur Mistkes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Military intelligence, two words combined that can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make sense\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (Hangar 18, Megadeth)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Some Lebanese blogs are being flooded with comments directing them to All4Lebanon.org<\/a> a new website offering monetary compensation for those who give any information regarding the Hizbullah. The offer is pseudo-anonymous and gives a satellite phone number and an inexplainable email address. However, as Mustapha points out<\/a>, the site is hosted at Barak, an Israeli ISP. Though the owner of the domain is hidden, one can only estimate<\/a> who initiated this website. Of course, one could read the news and find out…<\/p>\n

The problem with the Israeli intelligence during this war (or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153conflict\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as the Israeli media likes to call it, since no war was waged). Were i the IDF, i would have never hosted such a website on an Israeli server, nor would i do the promotion this way. I would have set up a Drupal\/Joomla installation of an aggregator, link to Lebanese bloggers who oppose Hizbullah, and start sending commenters to Lebanese blogs, and only after a few days do it. But this job is so amateur that it leaks out, and it leaks out big time, since they already published it yesterday in hebrew and were proud of it<\/a>. (why?)<\/p>\n

However, one good thing may come from Military Intelligence, should Israel use it wisely, it could refrain from killing innocent children and refrain from deprivation of food<\/a> and humanitarian supplies from the Lebanese. Were i the Israeli government, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d send humanitarian support there, even if not my humanitarian forces, but fund someone else\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, all in order to keep the civilians alive.<\/p>\n

Intelligence is needed in this sort of war, for all the right reasons, but if not used discretely, it may damage Israel more than it helps it.<\/p>\n

I think that the only real way to solve this conflict is to assist the Lebanese government in order to eradicate Hizbullah. And why should it eradicate it? Only for one good reason. A Sovereign country is the one who should hold the monopoly for the use of force; this is done in order to preserve order and to prevent other dissidents from taking power<\/a> from the democratically elected bodies.<\/p>\n

Israel must assist Lebanon to disarm Hizbullah<\/a> as the UN resolution requires; it must do so in a manner that hurts as few innocent civilians on both sides as possible. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why i\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m having a hard time today. At 18:30, 5 hours from now, there will be an anti-war demonstration in the Rabin Square. The same square which held the anti-war rally in 1982 with the attendance of 400,000 people. Today, i expect, there will be no more than 200, maybe 500 if there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a better weather.<\/p>\n

I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to go there since i believe that deploying armed forces is bad, but not as bad as stopping the war now where there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no peace treaty. During the last few days i\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been trying to study both sides and to look for a solution, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve also tried to recall ends to other conflicts. However, all other conflicts which i\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve studied were not close to this one. Maybe i should check about guerilla wars in South America, i believe that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the closest thing.<\/p>\n

Hope to get back with an answer soon.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Military intelligence, two words combined that can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make sense\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (Hangar 18, Megadeth) Some Lebanese blogs are being flooded with comments directing them to All4Lebanon.org a new website offering monetary compensation for those who give any information regarding the Hizbullah. The offer is pseudo-anonymous and gives a satellite phone number and an inexplainable email address. However, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}