Prepare for the next war

Asaf Gefen, YNET:

For Israel’s leadership and public, the Goldstone Report is reminiscent of the local summer: Every time you think it’s over, it appears for yet another round that is more tiring and bothersome than the previous one.

Last week, exhausted and sweaty in the wake of the previous rounds, we saw some members of our political establishment capitulate and decide that we’ve repressed enough and that the time has come for a “commission of inquiry.”

On the other hand, Defense Minister Ehud Barak argues that Israel must not abandon its soldiers, yet it’s unclear whether he refers to the commanders who fought in Gaza, or to those who slept in Paris for $2,500 a night.

The Goldstone Report has caused Israel such shame not only because it dared present us as a Goliath, rather than the world’s miserable victims, but mostly because of the Israeli feeling that the report – and the whole world in fact – is trying to snatch our glorious victory in Gaza.

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