Our World: What Commissions Cannot Do, by Caroline Glick (Jerusalem Post)
“Ma’ariv reported protocols of cabinet meetings in the weeks which preceded the 2000 withdrawal where then IDF chief of staff Shaul Mofaz and then IDF OC Northern Command Gabi Ashkenazi begged Barak not to go through with the withdrawal precisely because the Hezbollah buildup and aggression were so predictable.”
Related report: Summary of the Winograd Committee Interim Report
Excerpts;
When thousands of IDF reservists were released from service at the end of last summer’s war they were angry and demanded an accounting from the Olmert-Livni-Peretz government and from the IDF’s General Staff. The reservists rightly felt that they and the country had been betrayed by failed political and military leaders who chose the wrong strategy, prosecuted it incompetently, and led the IDF and the nation to an ignominious defeat that could have been a victory if they had been less incompetent, arrogant and foolish.