By: Meir Indor
Published: November 19th, 2012
Israeli tanks have been deployed along Gaza border for an invasion on November 16, 2012.
Photo Credit: Uri Lenz/ Flash90
Assuming that the term “Pillar of Cloud” wasn’t
selected at random by an IDF computer (which does in fact happen
sometimes), we have a problem. I have to hope that the name refers not
to a strictly aerial operation, but to aerial bombardment preceding the
entry of infantry and armored forces on the ground in Gaza, just as the
pillar of cloud and fire preceded the Children of Israel in the
wilderness.
If indeed the latter is the true meaning of Operation
Pillar of Cloud (the Hebrew name for Operation Pillar of Defense), then
it is going to run into opposition from Amram Mitzna and other
high-ranking leftist officers, who already this week came out against a
ground invasion to put an end to the terrorism. They claim that the
right tool for the job is aerial bombardment—and even that, only so long
as it is restrained and limited to very specific targets, as in the
assassination of Hamas military commander Ahmed Jabari this week.
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