{"id":20717,"date":"2010-07-14T13:02:58","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T11:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=20717"},"modified":"2023-07-25T15:16:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T12:16:59","slug":"israel-army-probe-of-flotilla-raid-finds-mistakes-blogger-finds-a-big-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/07\/14\/israel-army-probe-of-flotilla-raid-finds-mistakes-blogger-finds-a-big-one\/","title":{"rendered":"ISRAEL: Army probe of flotilla raid finds mistakes; blogger finds a big one"},"content":{"rendered":"

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July 12, 2010\u00a0|\u00a012:09 pm<\/div>\n
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The committee appointed by\u00a0the Israeli army\u00a0to examine the military’s performance in the ill-fated takeover of the Mavi Marmara, part of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, submitted its report<\/span> Monday. Giora Eiland, a former major general who headed Israel’s national security council and served in senior military posts, had been tapped by Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Gabi\u00a0Ashkenazi to head an internal\u00a0team of experts<\/span> a few days after the high-profile operation.<\/p>\n

The report cites faults in planning, intelligence and information integration,\u00a0among other\u00a0things, but also\u00a0said commandos\u00a0acted well under the circumstances.\u00a0Eiland’s team\u00a0found no negligence but did find mistakes<\/span>, including at senior levels.\u00a0He chose his words very\u00a0carefully.
\nBut really, instead of spending five weeks on a 100-page report, Eiland could have just published this instead:<\/p>\n

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The cartoon made the cyber-rounds June 1, reaching Israel even before Eiland’s appointment. It seems to have originated from\u00a0Abu Muqawama<\/span>, the nom-de-blog of an\u00a0expert\u00a0at the Center for New American Security with a blog on contemporary insurgency issues and a\u00a0good sense of\u00a0humor. He posted\u00a0“Fast-Roping 101”<\/span> the day after the raid, with a one-liner asking if it was “‘too soon.”\u00a0 Nope, not too soon, said one reader. Another commented it was too late, and\u00a0others said\u00a0the cartoon absolutely begged a T-shirt.<\/p>\n

So, here it is again.<\/p>\n

Now commandos may be waiting for the next commission\u00a0to decide\u00a0which decision-maker put them in the fast-roping-for-dummies situation to begin with.<\/p>\n

— Batsheva Sobelman in Jerusalem
\nImage credit: Abu Muqawama<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

July 12, 2010\u00a0|\u00a012:09 pm The committee appointed by\u00a0the Israeli army\u00a0to examine the military’s performance in the ill-fated takeover of the Mavi Marmara, part of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, submitted its report Monday. Giora Eiland, a former major general who headed Israel’s national security council and served in senior military posts, had been tapped by Israel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":35143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[3044],"class_list":["post-20717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","tag-mavi-marmara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}