I believe we could have avoided a large number of deaths if we had succeeded then in assassinating the entire top leadership at once.
The order was not issued because political considerations entered into the matter. There are fears among the political leadership that such a step could disrupt everything related to the withdrawal, and therefore the decision was not implemented.
Oded Eilam, former Mossad official and current researcher at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, told Kan channel that before the Israeli army's withdrawal from Lebanon in 200…