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Sunday, September 29, 2024
YNET: (Repeat of Peretz) Netanyahu Behind Decision To Destroy Long-range Missiles and Cruise Missiles

YNET: (Repeat of Peretz) Netanyahu Behind Decision To Destroy Long-range
Missiles and Cruise Missiles
Dr. Aaron Lerner 30 September 2024

The brass and ex-brass PM Netanyahu faced weren't as hostile as the ones
then DM Peretz did when he, as Peretz did, said to make the destruction of
the missiles a priority.

For a recording in which MK Peretz describes how he bucked the brass and
insisted that the IAF first destroy long range missiles at start of 2nd
Lebanon War.
http://youtu.be/SM_LMb10qsQ

Translated excerpt from "This is how the decisions that led to Nasrallah's
elimination were made | A look from the inside, step by step"
Ron Ben-Yishai YNET 00:11 30 September 2024
https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/hk51pxvar

...While the Air Force delivered the first strikes according to the plan it
had trained for years, the Prime Minister urgently convened a security
discussion on the 21st of the month, on Saturday night.

The IDF presented Netanyahu and the small security forum with three courses
of action for the northern front.

The first was to continue the campaign as it was

The second was to carry out targeted and destructive strikes on dual-use
Lebanese infrastructure

The third, proposed by the IDF, was a version of a full-scale war, including
fire strikes and ground maneuvering, depending on developments.

Then the Prime Minister said: "I want to put a fourth option on the table -
to target military infrastructure, senior leaders, and strategic assets -
that is, the heavy and long-range missiles and cruise missiles in
Hezbollah's possession."

After a long discussion in the security forum, and after Galant and the
Chief of Staff raised the possible risks, foremost among them a regional war
without informing the Americans, the decision was made to act according to
the plan proposed by Netanyahu....
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