Study: Gaza expulsion 'brainwashing' led to poor IDF performance in Lebanon

Much of the criticism of the IDF's performance in Lebanon two summers ago has centered on the soldiers' training being deficient due to excessive time spent in police actions in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip. One of those 'police actions' (or non-combat military actions as the IDF called it at the time) was the expulsion of Gaza's Jews from their homes in the summer of 2005. Now, a study has