Israel Featured Herzi Halevi, the top brass and the "Palestinian state" agenda, Part 2 The US demand that "...air force bombardment is out of the question, even in areas ...from which Hamas has attacked the IDF," gave Herzi Halevi the opportunity to open a new front against the IDF ground forces. He started using Hamas as his proxy force to thin out the IDF ground forces.
Israel Featured Herzi Halevi, the top brass and the "Palestinian state" agenda, Part 1 “We are tired of fighting, we are tired of being courageous, we are tired of winning, we are tired of defeating our enemies. We want to be able to live in an entirely different environment of relations with our enemies.” — Ehud Olmert, March 2006.