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We need humane army chief
Yael Dayan
Published: 23.01.07, 21:10
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1. What the hell is she talking about?
Sigfried S. Kuhn ,   Aberdeen Md.   (01.23.07)
The purpose of the army is to protect Israel and ALL Israelis---including members of the IDF. Obviously, the IDF has never been and will never be a brutal armed force that indiscriminately massacres civilians like Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jahid, and the nazis. However, it cannot become a politically correct organization that sacrifices the lives of its soldiers to hit legitimate targets in civilian areas either. Remember, terrorists have set the ground rules for their warfare. They live and operate among civilians and deliberately target Israeli children and women. Why should Israel sacrifice its 18 and 19 year old kids to safeguard the lives of enemy civilians who elected and support the terrorists and the international community that condemns Israel no matter how it tries to fight in a moral manner? Ms. Dayan is an idiot.
2. I hope he guards the dignity of female soldiers
jason white ,   afula,israel   (01.23.07)
better than Moshe Dayan! We need a chief of staff that will be humane to our soldiers and inhumane to the enemy. We also need a Minister of Defense that is the opposite of Dayan in '73 and the opposite of peretz always. In 1967 we re-took our land and we will settle it.There is no palestine and no arabs' right to our land.
3. The problem is Disengagement/Evacuation and not Occuppation
Chanan ,   USA   (01.23.07)
As usual the old, tired, recycled leftist talk. They will take any irrelevant opportunity to talk about it. Talk instead of giving the Army a free reign to get rid once and for all of the Arab terrorists as Sharon has done in 1972 in Gaza. So what if she is Dayan's daughter? Her brain is no bigger than a peanut.
4. The chief of staff should prepare the country for war PERIOD
Daniel ,   Formerly Israel   (01.23.07)
The chief of staff's job in any country even in a time of peace (which israel has never had and doesn't have now) is to prepare a plan for all-out war against all potential enemies and to make sure the army is equipped to carry it out. In situations where the Prime Minister believes that there is a choice between war and deplomacy, the Chief of Staff (along with the DM) should be pushing for war at least as hard as the FM is pushing for deplomacy, and it should be the Prime Minister's job to make the hard decesion between the two sides. The problem with Israel is that Its Chiefs of Staff and defense Ministers for the past ten years or so have not been soldiers but diplomats (and bad ones at that) and so when there was a choice between war and deplomacy they always chose deplomacy and when there was no choice but war they were utterly unprepared for it and just tried to get out of it as quickly as they could while keeping their hands as clean as they could.
5. after dayan retook the mount.,he gave it back to the arabs
dayan is at fault ,   like sharon..   (01.24.07)
6. P O S
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7. What Yael is really saying
Kyle ,   Southpark, CO, USA   (01.24.07)
Treat enemies humanely. Expel "settlers" with brutality.
8. we need a humane regime
dr lie   (01.24.07)
we need a humane regime in israel, which doesn't lock up in gail everyone who refuses to go to the army and to the teritories.
9. KYLE #7,,THATS THE NEW ISRAEL. A SLOW EVOLUTION FROM TORAH
MUST HAVE A DECISIVE ,   WAR WITH ARABS..   (01.24.07)
10. Thank God she is a former MK
AK   (01.24.07)
But how come all those Israeli giants beget midgets.
11. It's sad when a child can't speak for a parent
Ilan ,   Ariel   (01.24.07)
Yael is not a continuation of her father, a genuine patriot of this country. Moshe Dayan knew how to be ruthless as a fighter, much more so than most soldiers of today. He also was able to relate to Palestinians with a degree of respect. Only our enemies need fear him. It is a shame that his children are a stain on his memory.
12. 8 dr flake, go across the border and make the
freedom ,   canada   (01.24.07)
same statement about the regime in the territories. What do you think will happen... what are you smoking???
13. 10 Intelligence perhaps skips a generation?
freedom ,   canada   (01.24.07)
14. Humility and arrogance
TS ,   GR   (01.24.07)
what the author correclty states I think is that an army chief - any leader - should be an example for others as a whole, where your former Chief of Army certainly was not. Not quite on the subject but I read on an other large newspapers site that Halutz during the planning of the Lebanon war said "the sky of Lebanon will be darken by the shadows of our planes". So much arrogance so little understanding of history. This arrogance can only be compared to another historical figure 2500 years ago saying that "our arrows will darken the sky", if he had studied the battle of Thermopylae he should have known that such a remark (or capability) does not ensure victory success or fame.
15. A Jew in name only...
Ron ,   USA   (01.24.07)
and completely detached from reality.
16. An INTELLIGENT chief, more like
Paul ,   Austin, USA   (01.25.07)
Humane conduct comes naturally to those who are intelligent and responsible. The Israeli norm seems to be to shift blame and accountability until the public gets sick of hearing about it, while obstinately clinging to ones position like a tapeworm to an intestine. Therefore, an IDF chief with a functioning brain is what's needed.
17. Army chief shold make war painful for enemies
Jorge ,   Tegucigalpa   (01.25.07)
Succes in war is to sustain as litlle damage as posible and inflict as much damage and destruction on the enemy, the rest is b..-.sh..., The next chiel of staff has to prepare the army to fight wars only on military objectives, that is to win big and destroy the will and reason of the enemy to fight again, until that objective is achieved, Israel will be at risk
18. Balarina
Joe ,   Ireland   (01.25.07)
I think the you need an army chief who has at least three years of balarina experience it will make understand that he needs to stand on his tippy toes!! Wake up and smell the coffee your biggest enemy is yourselves and your lack of detemination.
19. Dayan should be made to live in Sderot
Ronny ,   TA   (01.25.07)
20. What we really need is for Dayan to shut up
daniel ,   amsterdam   (01.26.07)
Armies should win, not be humane. The IDF has been trying to be humane for as long as I can remember. It hasn't won a war in 30 years, this can't go on. Either Israel will start winning again, or it will disappear from the map.
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