Government and IDF racked by leadership crisis (talk of coup d'etat)

[gp]

I cannot vouch for the accuracy or track record of the paper...
but the stuff they're reporting, if true, is pretty remarkable to say the least.
It would definitely explain some of IDF's bizzare military manoeuvring over the past few weeks...

Analysis: Government and IDF racked by unprecedented leadership crisis

http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/9116.htm

Excerpts

According to informed sources, there is an almost total breakdown in trust and confidence between the General Staff and the PM's office. They have described the situation as "even worse than the crises that followed Ben Gurion's decision to disband the Palmach, and Golda Meir and Moshe Dayan's cynical decision to place all the blame for the Yom Kippur fiasco on the IDF's shoulders.

Olmert's responsibility for inaction goes much further.The US administration had given Israel the green light to attack Syria. A senior military source has confirmed to Israel Insider that Israel did indeed receive a green light from Washington in this regard, but Olmert nixed it.

Some senior officers have been mentioning the C-word in private conversations. They have been saying that a coup d'etat might be the only way to prevent an outcome in Lebanon that could embolden the Arab world to join forces with Syria and Iran in an all out assault on Israel, given the fact that such a development would be spurred entirely by the Arab and Moslem world's perception of Israel's leadership as weak, craven and vacillating, and therefore ripe for intimidation.

[Sanity Claws]

1. * spreads democracy wherever he goes

[spindrifter]

2. I have heard about some Israeli army reservists refusing

to respond to their activation orders. These are Americans who moved over there. They are returning to the States.

[lastknowngood]

3. If you want to hear the Right wing Israeli point of view go here

http://www.debka.com/

It's a great site, they have links to the Israeli military and intelligence community. They don't mention it so my guess it's bull.

I feel it is important to see the world from other points of view so I can temper mine and to understand the thinking behind much of the conflict in the world.

If you want the Arab/Asian point of view go to the Asia times.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page.html

Information is power, knowledge is a gift.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. stay the course. . . . vs. . . . . cut & run.

ya. right.

[bemildred]

5. Israel Insider is frequently full of shit.

This sounds like drivel. Not that I doubt there are some heated conversations going on in Tel Aviv.

[jpkenny]

Maybe, but Israeli spokeperson on BBC just now talking about how Syria

must be gone after in order to finish the job. The maniacs are worse than a nightmare.

[jpkenny]

6. Maybe, but Israeli spokeperson on BBC just now talking about how Syria

must be gone after in order to finish the job. The maniacs are worse than a nightmare.