In moments of truth,what should be investigated?
Despite his rhetoric of victory, Olemert knows best, that this war was catastrophic to the image of Israel on both internal and external levels. Deception abounds. Olemert knows that he is lying, the Israeli public knows he is lying, the Israeli generals know he is lying, and the Americans who trusted his capacity to crash the Lebanese resistance knows he is lying. What he did not know perhaps, is the level of demoralization in the Israeli army. This is what’s perhaps good about wars, if anything at all positive; it uncovers things that are difficult to know in times of peace. Of course we’ve heard of the growing corruption in the state of Israel, which is described as the highest of the industrialized countries. Yet all this was tolerated beneath the legend of ‘The Strong Israel’, its army being capable of miracles following the Zionist propaganda. While the fact is, all these military accomplishments were due to one major factor: Israel fought against corrupted regimes, corrupted gen
