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No lessons learned: Israeli military plans to intensify the use of indiscriminate and disproportionate force in its next armed conflict

In a recent interview (reported in the Israeli paper Ha’aretz) conducted with the a new military commander at the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) it was discovered that in spite of the military’s grave failures in the war with Lebanon in the summer of 2006 and the extensive critique it received both nationally and internationally, the military plans to return to its old doctrines which are known to be based on the vulgar display of power and the indiscriminate targeting of civilians and non-military sites. The Commander of the northern troops, Gadi Eisenkot, presented in an interview with a regional newspaper…