Under the title, "Still Stuck in the Lebanese Quagmire", Haartez "Israeli" daily reported Thursday that "Israeli" governments must learn lessons from War with Lebanon.
According to the "Israeli" daily many conferences and debates marked the war's 30th anniversary on Lebanon to learn "the lessons of Lebanon". "Six "Israeli" divisions invaded Lebanon to remove the Katyusha rocket threat from the northern communities and scatter the Palestinian Liberation Organizations in every direction," the paper recalled.
It further mentioned some aspects of the humiliating defeat that "Israel" suffered after its 1982 invasion despite its arms superiority.
"The "Israeli" air force, which shot down more than 80 Syrian airplanes without losing a single plane in air fights, ruled the skies, while the navy ruled the seas," the paper clarified and noted that "despite this, guerrilla "terrorists" managed to conduct successful and costly attacks on "Israeli" troops, sowing confusion in the "IDF's" ranks and disrupting its plans, and embroiled the "Israel Defense Force" in a long, bloody war of attrition that divided the nation and spread contention among the people."
Haaretz added that "the "Israeli" army's flawed performance afterward, what is today referred to as "the Lebanese quagmire."
"Later at the beginning of the Palestinian "terror" war - reaching its weakest point in the Second Lebanon War - should raise deep concern, as the Winograd Commission honestly stated," the paper admitted.
As it explained that "the broad objective - again, if there was one - was not pretentious at all. It had the potential to destroy the PLO and make a new order in Lebanon."
"In theory, it was a safe opportunity, not a gamble. The cards were shuffled due to the "IDF's" weakness and the government's surrender to the psychological warfare waged against it by the hegemonic circles," it stated to conclude:
"These are the main lessons of the first Lebanon war."
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