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Fox Newst announced 75,000 were just mobilized.Tell me more. From what I am reading, the Home Front Command is saying the fighting will last for at least seven weeks, and Lieberman has said,
Politicians demand gov't present ... JPost - Diplomacy & Politics
For Cast Lead only 10,000 reservists were called up, but 16,000 have been called up so far this time and the cabinet has approved calling up 75,000. My impression is that the government considers Cast Lead a failure because it ended in a unilateral Israeli ceasefire and because there were, as you well know, 451 rocket and mortar attacks on southern Israel in the first 10 months of 2012. Do you have reasons for believing this operation will be over so quickly or are you just feeling discouraged because the government took so long to respond to these outrages?
75000 is the most recent figure I heard on the BBC too.
But it appears not to be true. The cabinet has authorized the call up of as many as 75,000 reservists but only 16,000, mostly engineers, have been called up.