The Winograd Report : You should respect this people

You should respect the Israelis for their democracy and how they care that much for their country and how they try to learn from their mistakes so they won't repeat it for the sake of their people and their country and for the sake of what they believe in. They do not favour this or that because of his or her position or his or her family or what he or she had done in their past from glorious services marked in the Nation's book.

Today the final Winograd Report was published in Israel today and with it the future of Ehud Olmert is being determined whether to stay or to leave , the right wing does not want him anymore but the left wing wants him.

First what is the Wingordad Report ??

It is a report that is representing the findings of the governmental commission led by Eliyahu Wingordad to investigate the results of the Second Lebanon War 2006 , to know why Israel did not achieve any of its goals .

This is the final report.

Here is the main findings in English from Ha'atrz newspaper. Also there is interesting report in the same newspaper regarding the report you should read too.

Wingordad's report in my point of view proves that Hezbollah won the war . Look to what Wingordad said in today Press Conference :

"Israel embarked on a prolonged war that it initiated, which ended without a clear Israeli victory from a military standpoint .A paramilitary organization withstood the strongest army in the Middle East for weeks.Hezbollah rocket fire on the Israeli home front continued throughout the war, and the IDF failed to provide an effective response "

Yes Lebanon Paid a heavy price too but if you look in the past wars with Israel , we always pay heavier price than the Israelis , not to mention that Lebanon not the South of Lebanon was alone in the world , blockaded , with no air shield except very week air defense "compared to the Israelis'" . On the other hand Israel has the state of Art army and defense in the world and could not through out 60 days to even stop rockets from raining over its cities.

From Wingordad report's the deadly mistake was in the ground operation:

The manner in which the ground operation was conducted raises the most difficult of questions

This report is blaming the leadership for the losses by finding "grave faults and failings in the decision-making process and the preparatory work both in the political and military levels and the interaction between them "

The decision making in the political level is  under huge attacks , Winograd reached that the IDF entered the war especially the ground operation without clear.

Believe me the IDF and the Israelis will take this report and fix all their mistakes in order to win a second round , the Israelis always learn and plan based on their past wars and its mistakes.

Olmert refuses to resign as he depends on the Left wing support represented in Barack and his party , the card he is playing with is the Negotiations with the Palestinians "as if it were negotiations with any useful results ??!!"

Days will tell if Olmert will stay in his office or not ,already I do not think that he will stay too long .

After 1967 six days war , an Egyptian official committee was formed to investigate the reasons of the defeat , till this day after 30 years , we do not know yet the findings of the committee , in fact till now we do not know yet how many Egyptians whether from the civilians or from the military were killed in that war !!???

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