Aluf Benn is writing in Haaretz demanding answers on the public relations disaster/schools bathed with white phosphorus decisions that we call the Gaza war. Note that Benn could have written this in February or January, or December even, but he didn’t. Why not? Because of Goldstone. Because of Israel’s isolation. Note that (as Blankfort, my tipster says), this raises "questions that have been ignored such as who decided to break the ceasefire on Nov.4." Benn’s great lead:
I want to know how and why it was decided to embark on Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip and to expand it into a ground offensive. I want to know if the decisions were affected by the Israeli election campaign then underway and the change in U.S. presidents. I want to know if the leaders who launched the operation correctly judged the political damage it would cause Israel and what they did to minimize it. I want to know if those who gave orders to the Israel Defense Forces assumed that hundreds of Palestinian civilians would be killed, and how they tried to prevent this.
