Olmert’s warning to Zionist leaders about the painful consequences of the war with Hezbollah/end the threats against Lebanon

According to the international group Tasnim News Agency, one of the prominent former Zionist officials who has been involved since the beginning of the Gaza war So far, he has repeatedly criticized the policies of the current Prime Minister of the Zionist regime, Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet, as well as the Israeli army, and has warned against any plan for a large-scale war with Hezbollah. It has the July 2006 war.

Ehud Olmert, who started the July 2006 war after the Zionists’ humiliating defeat of the resistance in southern Lebanon in 2000 with the hope of a historic victory, ended up having to face a more humiliating defeat than the year 2000 to be removed from it. At that time, like Netanyahu’s recent situation, Olmert was exposed to strong criticism from Israel’s internal circles. After that, Ehud Olmert made a lot of efforts to propose some suggestions he received from military circles and his cabinet. defend the policy they had in this war; However, the “Vinograd” commission (the Israeli investigation committee that was formed on September 17, 2006 to investigate the performance of the officials and soldiers of this regime during the 33-day war with Hezbollah in Tel Aviv, with the most authority) considered him the main culprit of the failure in this war and reported that Olmert started the war with Lebanon without planning and hastily. After the Winograd Committee’s report, whispers of Ehud Olmert’s resignation were gradually heard, and finally, after many struggles, he resigned from this position in September 2008.

Olmert’s warning advice to the Zionist leaders about the consequences of the war with Hezbollah

on this basis, in parallel with the continued threats and rhetoric of the Zionist leaders, including Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, the Minister of War of the occupying regime, to attack Lebanon at the same time as the war that the army of this regime is engaged in in Gaza and on the front Occupied northern Palestine also receives painful blows from Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Ehud Olmert in an article published in the Hebrew newspaper Ha’aretz emphasizes that under no circumstances should Israel enter into a large-scale war with Lebanon.

Summary of the article Olmert, as published by Haaretz:

On July 12, 2006, I was leading the Israeli cabinet to decide on a comprehensive military response to Hezbollah’s attack against Israeli army positions along the border; where 10 Israeli soldiers were killed at the beginning of Hezbollah’s attack on Israeli military vehicles and at the same time Hezbollah fired a group of rockets that hit all of Israel (Occupied Palestine) from east to west.

After After a long discussion, the Council of Ministers of Israel decided that the response to this Hezbollah attack should be within the framework of a broad and comprehensive military operation; In such a way as to put an end to the continuous attacks by Hezbollah that disrupted life on the northern front of Israel (Occupied Palestine). Finally, on August 14, a little more than a month after the start of this war, a ceasefire was implemented with UN Security Council Resolution 1701.

The bitter experience of the 2006 war with Hezbollah

in At that time, a large number of Israelis, and perhaps most of them, came to the conclusion that Israel had lost this war and that its military deterrence power had been greatly weakened. Also, in the last 48 hours of the war, in which the Israeli army was involved, military and political experts, retired generals and politicians criticized the continuation of the war and the absence of any clear picture of victory, and believed that the operation of the Israeli army was a mistake.

It got to the point where “Moshe Ya’alon”, the former chief of staff of the Israeli army at that time, said that the arrival of three divisions of the Israeli army to Lebanon in the final stage of the war was a futile operation and as if its purpose was only to provide information. It was more to the Lebanese!

After the ceasefire came into effect on August 15, 2006, based on the Security Council resolution, 15,000 troops from the Lebanese army along with 12,000 members of the United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) at the borders Lebanon and Israel (Occupied Palestine) were established. After that, these borders have been calm for 17 years.

The northern front has been deserted

But today Israel looks at the second war with Lebanon as a strategic achievement; Even if many critics believe that Israel will lose this war. But we must note that the residents of the northern settlements, who have been safe from the direct threat of Hezbollah for many years, today miss their peaceful days in the shadow of the escalation of tensions.

Today, Kiryat Shmoune has been deserted since the end of October. Sedeh wishes to return to the years when its residents did not have to go to shelters and were safe from missiles and rockets. Today, all border areas of Israel (Occupied Palestine) have been evacuated and tens of thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes, and the security zone of the Israeli army is not in Lebanon but in Israel (Occupied Palestine).

We are now faced with a decision. which is of high strategic importance: that we should either be drawn into an all-out and direct confrontation with Hezbollah or try to reach an agreement that will stop the military tensions and return the northern region to the peace that prevailed 17 years ago.

End the threat against Hezbollah

In 2006 I pushed Israel into a second war with Lebanon and today in 2024 I recommend that we not allow ourselves to be dragged into a major military conflict. My first advice to the military and political authorities of Israel, i.e. the Prime Minister and the Minister of War, is to end your harsh threats against Hezbollah; Because these threats do not show self-confidence in any way and cannot bring the residents of the north back to their homes.

Also, there is a high possibility that these repeated threats by the Israeli authorities in the media will encourage Hezbollah to continue and intensify its attacks against Encourage multiple targets in northern Israel (Occupied Palestine). This exchange of fire leads us to a war that we can prevent today.

War with Hezbollah will be painful for Israel

In fact, it is in the interest of both Israel and Hezbollah that prevent the spread of war, and the way to do this is to put the negotiations to determine the borders again on the agenda. After the end of the war in July 2006, Netanyahu strongly attacked me and sought constant provocation against my cabinet, but today Netanyahu’s own successive weaknesses opened the way for Hezbollah elements to return to the borders and finally led to the evacuation of the northern settlements.

Every day that Israelis are away from their homes and settlements is a day of military and political defeat for Israel, and Israel cannot and should not allow this situation to continue. The border disputes with Lebanon should be resolved under the supervision of the United States and the Security Council; in such a way as to enable the full implementation of Resolution 1701.

It is clear to me that the extreme gang of Netanyahu’s cabinet, consisting of Itmar Ben Gower, Bezalel Smutrich, and…, broke the discussion about borders. They know for Israel and anyone who supports this process is accused of betrayal and surrender.

But we must remember that southern Lebanon is not part of the historical land of Israel (Occupied Palestine) that Netanyahu’s cabinet is committed to. It has been under our control forever. This is exactly the card with which we should avoid being dragged into another war; A war that will be very painful for Israel and this war is really pointless and unnecessary.

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