Amos Yadlin says op strategy a mistake

27 July 2014, 3:47 pm

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Israel’s incremental operational plan for the Gaza operation, beginning with an aerial campaign and slowly increasing in intensity, is a mistake, the former head of Israel’s military intelligence directorate says Sunday.

Maj. Gen. (ret) Amos Yadlin says that there are merits in the approach adopted by the government, in that it preserves Israeli legitimacy and it allows multiple exit points for de-escalation, but “in hindsight, this was not the right strategy.”

A sharp, forceful move at the onset, exerting immediate pressure on the military wing of Hamas, he says in a conference call, would have been “a much smarter” option.

— Mitch Ginsburg