The great Akiva Eldar in Haaretz is reporting that a Hebrew University Law Professor is asking Israel's AG to investigate a buried episode involving Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz now that he may replace Ehud Olmert as Prime Minister: that when he was Israel's military chief of staff in 2001, during the second intifadah, he held a briefing at which he demanded a "quota" of 70 Palestinian fatalities a day from Israeli forces. Apparently the incident came out in a 2005 book on the second intifadah (which said that Mofaz told the recording secretary at the briefing not to record his remarks), and in Haaretz. David Kretschmer, the law professor, "cautioned that if the law enforcement authorities in
Israel did not investigate this incident, Mofaz could be sought for
questioning in foreign countries." Mofaz denies that he made the statement.
Thanks to David Bloom, my go-to guy on the Occupation, who adds:
"Mofaz, by the way, lives in Kochav Yair, along with the rest of Israel's security elite. Now he will have a very big front yard, 1500 acres. He can enjoy the Jayyous almonds [from the Palestinian village of Jayyous] the fence will steal for him…." See here Kochav Yair "reaches out" to people making aliyah, including relatives of "fighters in the underground movements." I.e., the Irgun's descendants. For it is named after Abraham Stern of the Stern gang. sez Wikipedia.
