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"Over the course of the war soldiers were held back for weeks when they were ready to charge. When they were finally dispatched, they were given unachievable missions in impossible time constraints. Soldiers were sent on daytime missions that should have been carried out only under the cover of darkness. Some died as a result."

--Israel's policy of holding its fire under such a protracted and massive attack is problematic, not only because of considerations of honor or because of the real danger to the lives of the inhabitants of the western Negev. What is grave is that this is a precedent that grinds away the remnants of deterrence that the IDF still had in the eyes of the Arab world and that was critically damaged in the fiasco of the Lebanon War.-- Missile Falls On?Strategic Compound In Ashkelon--A Policy Of Humiliation?--Key Member Of Israeli Knesset Against Egyptian Foreign Minister--A Muslim Assistant Commander In The Israel Police