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 | | When the elite reconnaissance unit to which General Kaplinsky once belonged suffered heavy losses in the early stages of this campaign, the defeat was mocked in a speech by the head of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, who claimed that victory against the "elite Golani forces" had damaged the army's morale. |
 | | The decision this week by the Israeli Defence Force's chief of staff, Lieutenant-General Dan Halutz, to promote General Kaplinsky, his deputy, was announced on the eve of the Government's approval of a plan to expand the ground invasion of southern Lebanon. |
 | | The appointment of General Kaplinsky was an attempt to replace a desk general with a field general, said Dr Eviathar Ben-Zedeff, a former infantryman and a fellow at the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism. |
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