Attacks Affecting Lebanese Industry in the 2006 Lebanon war

In July 1948, in what Eliot Cohen described as БЂњone of the truly astonishing episodesБЂ«of IsraelБЂ™s War of Independence, the government established a commission staffed by leaders from across the political spectrum while the war was still going on. The commission stepped back for three days to hear testimony from angry army officers about the government and the militaryБЂ™s conduct during the war and what they believed to be Ben-GurionБЂ™s micromanagement.17 Setting up a commission amid the fighting of a war was a questionable decision, given the distraction it would impose on the leadership. But, as Yuval Dotan told us earlier, in Israel the debrief is as important as the fighting itself. This rigorous review and national debrief was in full public display as recently as the 2006 Lebanon war. Initially, there was almost unanimous public backing for the governmentБЂ™s decision to respond massively to the attack by Hezbollah from across IsraelБЂ™s northern border on July 12, 2006. This public support continued even when civilians in northern Israel came under indiscriminate missile attack, forcing one out of seven Israelis to leave their homes during the war ...»