Last week, Israeli TV Channel 10 broadcast an investigative story about the
2006 Israeli attack on Lebanon, known as “Lebanon War II”.
Though not very profound, it provided a good picture of what actually happened.
The three main Israeli protagonists talked freely.
The picture was very disturbing, to say the least. One could say that it was
alarming.
The main conclusion is that all our leaders at the time behaved with blatant
irresponsibility, combined with stupidity.
To recapitulate: Lebanon II lasted 34 days, from July 7 to August 14, 2006.
It was provoked by a border incident: Hezbollah forces in South Lebanon crossed
the border and attacked a routine Israel patrol. The aim was to capture Israeli
soldiers in order to effect a prisoner exchange — the only way to get the
Israeli government to release Arab prisoners.
In the attack, two Israeli soldiers were dragged to Lebanese territory. All
the others were killed. We were told that the captives were assumed to be alive.
The film shows that the army command knew immediately that at least one of the
captives was dead, and the second was assumed to have died, too. In fact, both
were killed in the action.