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Israel Plays Hi Tech War Game While Hizballah Throws Rocks for Tactical Gains |
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Skrevet av DEBKAfile
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tirsdag 15. mai 2007 |
 | It was a typical concatenation of Middle East contrasts. Monday, May 14, Israel launched a four-day war game at civilian and military command levels. The lead actors are Chief of staff Lt. Gen. Gaby Ashkenazi, the General Staff, regional commanders as well as the prime minister and defense minister. The scenarios using computers, satellites and hi-tech communications are meant to simulate crisis management in the event of a full-scale war.
It will also impart the fundamentals of modern conflict management to PM Ehud Olmert and defense minister Amir Peretz, supplementing some of the shortcomings they displayed in the Lebanon war.
On the other side of Israel’s troubled northern border, Hizballah is carrying out a live exercise to chase the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon-UNIFIL peacekeepers away from the border region first, then from all parts of South Lebanon. The Lebanese militia places its trust in low-tech weaponry: rocks hurled at UN vehicles and yellow Hizballah flags planted provocatively right up against the Israeli border.
In muscle-flexing mode, Hizballah’s Hassan Nasrallah is employing hundreds of troops disguised as villagers and civilians of the militia’s reserve force to harass the UN peacekeepers patrolling areas under the UN Security Resolution 1701 of last August.
While Israel builds scenarios for a full-scale conflict on several fronts, Hizballah’s patron, Iran, prepares a war of attrition against the Jewish state by means of local flare-ups on its borders.
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