Why the mighty fell- Gideon Levy

Here they are again, the protesting officers. After their failure in the wake of the Second Lebanon War, they have returned to us on the eve of the release of the final Winograd Committee report. Now, as then, their protest is hollow. They are crying out together with the bereaved parents, but their cry is infuriating. While protest in this complacent country is a good thing, in this case its content is deceptive, it focuses on the trivial and disregards substance.

Both then and now, they want the prime minister's head; their be-all and end-all is Ehud Olmert's resignation. They are not protesting the outbreak of the war as such, the absence of any justification for it, or for that matter its moral and ethical failure. They like to talk about "values," but their values are not moral. They wanted the war to have been managed differently, to go on and on, until victory. But there was no chance of that war ending in victory, and that is one reason - though not the only one - that it would have been better had it not been fought.

...Why did the mighty fall? They fell in vain, because Israel again turned to the weapon of war as the first option, because Israel again invoked the language of brute force it is so fond of. Accordingly, the answer to the terrible question of the fallen heroes is: They fell because Israel embarked on a futile war of folly.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/948301.html


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