Israel has earned the blessings of management by
protexia. Today brings news of a wartime Defense Minister oblivious to the basic elements of Israel's defense.
Defense Minister Amir Peretz bolstered Daniel Doron's argument that he is illiterate by announcing during the war that no one had informed him that Hezbollah had missiles in Lebanon. Apparently no one had informed him that this information could be accessed from non-classified materials released to the public in the form of the daily newspaper.
Today Peretz falsely announced that the naval blockade of Lebanon was still in effect. (In defense of the Defense Minister, this is not viewed as central to Israel's defense now that the job has been outsourced to UN defenders.)
Interestingly
the reporting implies that rather than reveal his ignorance, he simply chose to assert a random answer:
The defense minister faced an embarrassing moment during the meeting after giving a false reply to a question to which he seemed not to know the correct answer. When asked whether Israel was still enforcing a naval blockade in Lebanese waters, Peretz answered affirmatively.
After several MKs retorted that they "were aware of different information," his military secretary told him that no such blockade was intact
Clearly Peretz is not aware of IRIS, because he could have learned of the
Hezbollah missile threat twelve years ago without reading a single word. Therefore I request that one of our readers should please inform the Minister that the disarmament of Hezbollah is an absolute farce. Rather than being in hiding as the Prime Minister bragged, Nasrallah claimed to be back to a strength of 20,000 missiles. Here is independent confirmation of this:
Hizballah Moving Rockets Near Israeli Border
Hezbollah has been transporting rockets and heavy weaponry to Palestinian camps in south Lebanon just a few miles from the Israeli border, according to Lebanese officials.
The office of Lebanese Prime Minister Faud Siniora sent a letter last week to Abbas Zakir, the PA's most senior representative in Lebanon, outlining the Hezbollah weapons transfers into Palestinian camps.
A senior Lebanese official said Hezbollah started building a new set of bunker systems, this time in Palestinian camps.
"The Lebanese Army doesn't have the authority to patrol inside the camps," said the official.
"Hezbollah knows it is safe there to rebuild their war bunkers, and they began doing so with Iranian help."
