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| By: israelinsider staff and partners |
| Published: August 7, 2006 |
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Thomas Ricks, Pentagon reporter for The Washington Post told CNN's Howard Kurtz that his sources claimed that Israel was leaving rockets untouched intentionally. "One of the things that is going on," Ricks said, "according to some military analysts, is that Israel purposely has left pockets of Hezbollah rockets in Lebanon, because as long as they're being rocketed, they can continue to have a sort of moral equivalency in their operations in Lebanon."
Kurtz, stunned by the claim, responded: "Hold on, you're suggesting that Israel has deliberately allowed Hezbollah to retain some of it's fire power, essentially for PR purposes, because having Israeli civilians killed helps them in the public relations war here? Ricks confirmed: "that's what military analysts have told me."
Kurtz, accepting the claim, then said: "That's an extraordinary testament to the notion that having people on your own side killed actually works to your benefit in that nobody wants to see your own citizens killed but it works to your benefit in terms of the battle of perceptions here." Ricks confirmed: "Exactly. It helps you with the moral high ground problem, because
you know your operations in Lebanon are going to be killing civilians as well." |
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