Former defense minister and current Zionist Union MK Amir Peretz, speaking at an accountants conference, does a little accounting of his own, finding himself justified in his management of the Second Lebanon War in 2006.
“Looking back, the Second Lebanon War achieved strategic goals for the State of Israel, and successfully met the challenges we set for ourselves, and there it has proven itself. When looking at results, it was a success,” he says, according to the Ynet news site.
The war, in which thousands of rockets rained on northern Israel as the army Israel fought against Hezbollah for three weeks in southern Lebanon, was widely criticized afterward, including in the post-mortem Winograd Report which found widespread planning and strategic failures up the chain of command.
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