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The Lebanon War: Not Yet the End.
March 06, 2007 9:30 AM
By BRUNO NOTA
Over seven months after the military confrontation with Lebanon’s Hezbollah has ended, the Israeli political and defense establishments are still trying to determine what went wrong during the summer of 2006.
Justice Micha Lindenstrauss, the Israeli state comptroller, came this morning to the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, to present partial findings of his inquiry into the activity of various civil institutions and the military’s Home Front command during the war which disrupted the lives of over a million residents of Northern Israel.
The Knesset appearance by Justice Lindenstrauss was preceded by a Supreme Court decision which limited the amount of information he could divulge in the public hearing to procedural matters only. The decision came in response to an appeal by the I.D.F.’s Home Front commander, one of the subjects of the inquiry, who claimed he was not given enough time to read the report and formulate a response to what he perceived could be direct accusations against him and the unit he commands.
Lindenstrauss did point out in the hearing the fact that in contrast to all the other officials who co-operated with the committee, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is the only one who did not yet respond to the 12 questions sent to him.
It is not clear how important to the conclusion of the report Olmert’s lack of co-operation is. It is clear thought that the allegedly apolitical institution of the State Comptroller is now caught in the middle of the political dispute between Olmert’s supporters and his opponents.
In addition to the Lindenstrauss’ inquiry, succumbing to public pressure, Ehud Olmert appointed on September 11 2006 Justice Eliahu Vinograd to head a state inquiry committee meant to examine his government’s handling of the war. Olmert did co-operate with the Vinograd committee. It will be the publication of the Vinograd report in the coming months which is expected to have a direct impact on the Israeli Prime Minister’s political future.
Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz, the I.D.F. Chief of Staff during the war resigned in February 2007. He remains to this day the only top ranking Israeli to have paid a personal price for his professional performance during the events of summer 2006.
March 6, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (1)
Where are the stories about the U.N. approving an international investigation of Rafik Harriri's assination? This is a huge step towards discovering the facts and figures behind this tragic murder and I'm flabbergasted that it seems to have gotten almost no mention at all.
Posted by: Bubbler | May 31, 2007 12:15:45 PM
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