![]() | THE ISRAEL REPORTMay/June 2000 | ![]() |
Comment: 5 things about the withdrawal NOT for the memory holeAaron Lerner Date: 24 May 2000With the spin experts feverishly at work, it is worthwhile to recall the following: #1 Public support for unilateral withdrawal from Lebanon did not reflect a tired public ready to throw in the towel but instead a public willing to risk leaving Lebanon in order to save the Golan. Unilaterally leaving Lebanon was believed to remove the key gain from leaving the Golan.When a three kilometers line of cars (many of them with market values that could be traded for a new start in life) loaded with what remained of the escaping family's worldly possessions formed at the border the system froze. No one took the initiative (or responsibility) to do the obvious: close down the road from the border for a few minutes and move the line of cars a-la-"safe passages" in a convoy to an open field within Israel. Instead the families were forced to abandon their cars and most of their belongings to be seized by local villagers. It is noteworthy that the most serious charge against Barak in the Tse'elim incident was NOT that he declined to hold the hands of wounded soldiers but that while he explained that he did not hold hands because he was busy supervising the evacuation, the evacuation of the wounded was a series of foul-ups (no one instructed the gate to allow the ambulances in and not all the ambulance units were called in). | ||
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