Wikileaks: Netanyahu Says Israel’s Failure in July War Empowered its Enemies in Lebanon

A leaked U.S. Embassy cable published exclusively in Al-Akhbar on Thursday revealed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s disappointment with the Jewish state’s failure in the July 2006 war, saying that it had mishandled the situation in Lebanon.

The Wikileaks cable also quoted him as saying before the U.S. Ambassador to Israel Richard Jones that the failure empowered Israel’s enemies in Lebanon.

Furthermore, the Israeli official said: “The problem with the war was not in its goals, but in the failure to achieve them through the methods that were used in the war.”

He explained that the Israeli army would have been victorious had it used large units instead of the small ones that were deployed for the war, a move he described as “stupid.”