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		Adviser to former prime minister Ariel Sharon, Dov Weissglas (Alon Ron)

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Weisglass to Winograd: Sharon wouldn't have sent ground troops to Lebanon

By Haaretz Service

Tags: Ariel Sharon, Lebanon War

Former prime minister Ariel Sharon's most senior adviser on Tuesday told the panel investigating the conduct of last year's war in Lebanon that Sharon would not have considered a ground operation over the border.

In his testimony to the Winograd Committee, Dov Weissglas added that had Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel's northern towns and cities during Sharon's tenure, he would have taught the group "a lesson they wouldn't have forgotten for 50 years."

The former adviser said that Israel had known prior to the war that Hezbollah was strengthening and increasing its military capabilities.

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"We certainly knew that there was trouble, that they had the potential for trouble, that they were building their capabilities," he said.

Still, he added, there were levels of control imposed on the guerilla group by the Lebanese government who recognized that the source of its militancy was tied to the Palestinian issue.

"As the Lebanese understood that essentially the Palestinian matter was a catalyst for the Hezbollah to arouse Israel because of considerations that have nothing to do with Lebanon... their [Hezbollah's] political strip became shorter, even as they increased their iron," he said.

When asked how, in Weissglas' opinion, Sharon would have reacted on the day Israel Defense Forces soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev were abducted, the former adviser said, "I assume he would have ordered a very harsh air force operation... [but] would not have reached a ground operation."

"I'm sorry to say this, but it was a border incident, a border incident that was not some sort of deus ex machina that had to develop into war," he said.

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1.	A LESSON FROM SHARON? LIKE WHAT?	14:16	\|	indrajaya	15/11/07

2.	O no Sharon would never have invaded Lebanon	14:19	\|	Gemayel	15/11/07

3.	talk is cheap..	14:23	\|	northern neighbor	15/11/07

4.	Weissglass	14:26	\|	Marc	15/11/07

5.	the posters above must buy thier history books from the Saudis	14:26	\|	Dude	15/11/07

6.	What Sharon Would Have Done	14:28	\|	Confidante	15/11/07

7.	gemayel i thought you were dead.	14:29	\|	aoun	15/11/07

8.	Gemayel	14:39	\|	Tamir Palestine	15/11/07

9.	Northern Neighbour	14:41	\|	rich	15/11/07

10.	I call for new war in lebanon, all any kind of wars.	14:43	\|	Tamir Palestine	15/11/07

11.	Weisglas dreamer talker	15:23	\|	eddie	15/11/07

12.	and that is the problem for Israel	15:24	\|	Sam (UK)	15/11/07

13.	lesson?	15:27	\|	lesson	15/11/07

14.	there is still time	15:28	\|	Nabulsi	15/11/07

15.	a MESSAGE FROM A LEBANESE	15:37	\|	r	15/11/07

16.	Israel caught sleeping	15:41	\|	Chaim Gorenstein	15/11/07

17.	He did not say he would not have had a war.	15:46	\|	Realist	15/11/07

18.	#15. A message from Lebanese	16:40	\|	John	15/11/07

19.	Lessons Hopefully Learned	16:41	\|	Ron	15/11/07

20.	#5 Dude	16:47	\|	Wendy	15/11/07

21.	John in Boston	16:54	\|	Nadine	15/11/07

22.	Ground operation not the problem, cease fire is the problem	16:55	\|	bernard ross	15/11/07

23.	Let sharon rotten	17:03	\|	Mike	15/11/07

24.	To #!	17:15	\|	Oleg	15/11/07

25.	#16	17:17	\|	B	15/11/07

26.	Sabra and Shatila	17:24	\|	B	15/11/07

27.	Message from Lebanes##15	17:27	\|	Ramachandran Nair	15/11/07

28.	Only Peace is the way	17:30	\|	Eli Israeli	15/11/07

29.	even more educational than shatila?	17:51	\|	sabre	15/11/07

30.	#15-lebanese	17:52	\|	Zainab	15/11/07

31.	I Supported Blowing The Hezbollah...	18:01	\|	Yosemite	15/11/07

32.	War Sucks	18:29	\|	F. Natour	15/11/07

33.	#15 and #30	19:18	\|	George	15/11/07

34.	Disagree	19:36	\|	Erik	15/11/07

35.	This idiot first said "Qassams,Shmassams" and relied on "Bush let	19:42	\|	Absolute Sweden	15/11/07

36.	Ground troops not necessary	19:53	\|	leo	15/11/07

37.	Sharon	20:05	\|	democrat	15/11/07

38.	TO Dude #5	20:12	\|	Steve Beikirch	15/11/07

39.	Warmongers -No 38	20:21	\|	Palestinian Brit	15/11/07

40.	Hezbollah	20:27	\|	BRL	15/11/07

41.	Weinglas - He Was Probably Part of the Problem	20:34	\|	Tod Zuckerman	15/11/07

42.	Steve Beikirch re Arik Sharon	20:35	\|	ChanahS	15/11/07

43.	Sharon	20:45	\|	steve dill	15/11/07

44.	#33 George	20:52	\|	walayhimmak	15/11/07

45.	To all idiots Leb christians...my Mom christ, my relatives christ	20:53	\|	Tamir Palestine	15/11/07

46.	Sharon was a complete flop - father of Itnatkut fiasco	20:55	\|	WorshippingFatty	15/11/07

47.	# 33, George in Beirut	20:56	\|	Does not matter	15/11/07

48.	Christian Lebanese	20:56	\|	Dakkar	15/11/07

49.	CRIMINAL WRISGLASS MASTERMINDED GUSHKATIF DEPORTATION,START OF AL	20:59	\|	VOICE))))))))	15/11/07

50.	To R #15	20:59	\|	I.A.	15/11/07

51.	To Tamir	21:00	\|	I.A.	15/11/07

52.	"a lesson they wouldn`t have forgotten for 50 years."	21:04	\|	Colin Wright	15/11/07

53.	B	21:07	\|	Chaim Gorenstein	15/11/07

54.	to George #33	21:07	\|	I.A.	15/11/07

55.	Teaching the Lebanese a lesson	21:18	\|	Colin Wright	15/11/07

56.	#21 Nadine in Beirut	21:34	\|	John	15/11/07

57.	Sharon`s lesson - more likely he would have given back the Golan	21:43	\|	Jon	15/11/07

58.	George	21:43	\|	Eli	15/11/07

59.	Sharon the General	21:45	\|	Brod	15/11/07

60.	tea for two	21:58	\|	ron	15/11/07

61.	#38	22:11	\|	Brian	15/11/07

62.	to 50 I.a	23:10	\|	Eli Israeli	15/11/07

63.	First define "Victory" then accept Hezbollah as the cowards ....	23:15	\|	J	15/11/07

64.	to Colin Wrong...oops i mean Wright	23:22	\|	J	15/11/07

65.	To I.A. #50 What an idiotic post!	23:28	\|	Dakkar	15/11/07

66.	Eli, Lebanon - Do you support or not support Hiz?	23:31	\|	John	15/11/07

67.	#64 J in Jax	00:52	\|	Labhras	16/11/07

68.	#33, GEORGE, so it`s ok for your country to be decimated?	00:52	\|	VIPER	16/11/07

69.	Colin Wright Not Right	01:32	\|	Nora	16/11/07

70.	#42 Say Chanah	01:53	\|	ballistic	16/11/07

71.	Say John at #66, er, pardon the intrusion	02:01	\|	ballistic	16/11/07

72.	sharon criminality	02:43	\|	Felipe	16/11/07

73.	Haaretz reporting	02:51	\|	Philippe	16/11/07

74.	Dakkar and idiocy	03:36	\|	I.A.	16/11/07

75.	Eli Israeli	03:43	\|	I.A.	16/11/07

76.	The sting is always in the tail	04:27	\|	Johnboy	16/11/07

77.	#17 Realist, did you actually read to the END of the article	04:34	\|	Johnboy	16/11/07

78.	What, No Ground Forces?	04:45	\|	Sane	16/11/07

79.	to Colin Wright#55	05:39	\|	Ilya	16/11/07

80.	To ChanahS #42	06:16	\|	Steve Beikirch	16/11/07

81.	thank you sane	06:19	\|	sam	16/11/07

82.	#77 I think he`s trying to tell you something, Sane.	06:27	\|	Johnboy	16/11/07

83.	Taar	07:38	\|	taar	16/11/07

84.	Air Power	09:13	\|	MJ	16/11/07

85.	Sharon : no troops to Lebanon	09:53	\|	I.Kemp	16/11/07

86.	Response to those who doubt the dude	11:35	\|	Dude	16/11/07

87.	27 Mr.Nair,well said! Exactly my thought!	14:53	\|	lakshmi	16/11/07

88.	I.A. and more idiocy	18:25	\|	Dakkar	16/11/07

89.	Dear I.A	20:50	\|	Eli Israeli	16/11/07

90.	Dakkar and Incredible Idiotic Ignorance	21:40	\|	I.A.	16/11/07

91.	Dakkar and Incredible Idiotic Ignorance 2	21:47	\|	I.A.	16/11/07

92.	finally Dakkar	21:49	\|	I.A.	16/11/07

93.	#38 Beikirch - They`ll be remembered	22:05	\|	* BEN JABO	16/11/07

94.	#80 Beikirch	22:08	\|	* BEN JABO	16/11/07

95.	Lebanese Hezballah	23:43	\|	Eli Israeli	16/11/07

96.	To Eli Israeli	02:22	\|	I.A.	17/11/07

97.	To Eli Israeli	02:30	\|	I.A.	17/11/07

98.	lebanon is 14 nations with 14 Armies	15:34	\|	ROB OF MELBOURNE AUS	17/11/07

99.	#98, ROB, how right your	03:39	\|	VIPER	21/11/07

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