"Israeli" army conducts largest maneuver since Lebanon War in 2006

Source: Xinhua, 30-10-2007
`JERUSALEM` (AL-QUDS) - "Israeli" Military are conducting in northern part of the country the largest military drill since the Second Lebanon War in 2006, local newspaper Ha`aretz reported Tuesday.
The four-day military operation, started from Sunday, was continuing in north "Israel`s" Galilee region, the report said.
The maneuver was originally planned to take place also in the occupied Golan Heights, which "Israel" took from Syria in 1967 Mideast War, but the "Israeli" Military decided to cancel that part of maneuver only two days before the drill for fear that increasing tensions with Syria.
The maneuver involved ground, air and naval forces as well as intelligence and S4 units, said local newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, adding that no live fire would be used in the drill.
A similar drill had been held a month before the Second Lebanon War.
The objective of the exercise is "to synchronize the decision making process between the various military bodies in the midst of a crisis situation," it said.
Yedioth Ahronoth also said that the maneuver will further pressure the decision makers by complicating the combat scenarios with various possible political developments as well as the opening of a new front in southern "Israel".