Olmert And Peretz At Odds On War
Defense Minister Amir Peretz told Israel Defense Forces officials on Thursday evening to begin preparing for the next stage of the military offensive in south Lebanon, which would extend the IDF's control to all Lebanese territory south of the Litani River..
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, however, is said to be reluctant about expanding Israel's ground operation. While Peretz believes that the short-range rocket threat posed by Hezbollah can be neutralized by taking the area up to the Litani, Olmert feels that such a move would not be able to counter the longer-range missile threat posed by the Shi'ite organization.
Olmert is proving that a man can be right and wrong at the same time. He is correct that a push to the Litani River would have little or no impact on the long range rockets of Hizballah
But he is wrong, if he keeps Israel from moving to the Litani becasue it will not stop long range rockets, it will stop Katushas.
The IDF sitting on the Litani with a buffer zone cleaned of Hizballah would reduce to zero the Katusha rockets which are 97% of the rockets currently falling on Israel murdering Jews.
I never thought this day would come but I agree with Peretz push to the Litani and clean the security zone of Hizballah. Only good things can come from such a move.
