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Winograd Committee = Evasion of Personal Responsibility for Fatal Failures…

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Yes, Heads Must Roll, By Moshe Negbi (Haaretz)

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It is not only the reserve soldiers who have difficulty considering the Winograd committee to be a reliable substitute for a state commission of inquiry. The judges sitting on the High Court of Justice have also showed their displeasure with the situation in which a person who is to be investigated appoints his own investigators. Justice Ayala Procaccia expressed doubts about whether a committee of inquiry could examine “so large a failure of the mechanism, such a colossal event,” when the central object under investigation is the government that appointed the committee. read more

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Winograd Commission: Judges of, or Subordinate to, the Regime Initiating It?

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A Commission on Probation By Ari Shavit (Haaretz)

“Judge Eliyahu Winograd, Yehezkel Dror, Haim Nagel, Menachem Einan and Ruth Gavison are now facing the most important moment of their public lives. Nothing that they have done in the past comes close in importance to what they are about to do now. No professional achievement that they might attain in the future will be able to atone for a crucial mistake made now.”

“History will not forgive the members of the Winograd Commission if, in this fateful autumn, they fail to rise above themselves, and instead fall asleep on their watch and betray their mission.” read more

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Winograd Commission Members Wearing Two Hats??

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Secretary of Winograd Commission Kadima Activist During Elections

Commentary;

If these allegations are in fact true, and it would come as no great surprise if they are, then there are some giant conflict of interest and legal ethicacy questions which arise regarding the Winograd Commission. And assuredly, if these allegations are true, they represent merely the tip of Israeli government crime syndicate iceberg. MB

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The secretary of the newly established Wingrad Commission to investigate the government’s behavior in the recent war has been found to have been a leading activist on behalf of the ruling Kadima party during last elections. read more

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Will US Citizens Witnessing Security Briefings from Israeli Officials be Called to Testify by Winograd panel?

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Israel Forms Panel To Examine ‘Ill Preparedness’ By David Bedein (The Evening Bulletin)

“‘Olmert pounded on the podium and exhorted his questioner to examine ‘Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon as a model which Israel would apply to Gaza and Samaria.’ Although Hezbollah terrorists had stationed 15,000 missiles and mortars in Lebanon, Olmert proclaimed that ‘they have never, never, never used missiles against Israel on the northern border since Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon in May 2000.'” read more

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Olmert Parody on Barak: “I Will Do Everything…” [To Hold Power?]

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Commentary;

Defense Minister Ehud Barak keeps saying things like “I will do everything to bring him [Gilad Shalit] back” or “Israel would do everything in its power to see the safe return of captured Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit.” It is highly questionable what the limits of that “everything” are. For instance, does everything include liberation by military means?

Meanwhile, we have watched Barak’s coalition partner prime minister Ehud Olmert complete his 2 year charade concerning deceased IDF soldiers Regev and Goldwasser which, as Evelyn Gordon seems to indicate in her commentary below; read more

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Do Israeli Politicians Believe in the Justice of Israel’s Cause?

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It seems patently obvious that without a Jewish faith-based governmental and leadership rooting, without recognition that our existence as a Jewish nation and our being in OUR Land is directly connected to the tenents of Jewish halacha and principle, both the governance and prestige of Israel are doomed to continued deep downward spiral. MB

Two Years of Hindsight (Jerusalem Post Editorial)

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The second anniversary of the 34-day-long Second Lebanon War offers an apt occasion to reflect on its lessons for Israel, now that the dust has settled somewhat. It is almost universally agreed that although the Israeli home front displayed great resilience, the IDF, in failing to harness its overwhelming military superiority, squandered an opportunity to destroy the bulk of Hizbullah’s military presence in southern Lebanon, to crush that group’s state-within-a-state, and to enhance Israel’s deterrence. read more

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Barak News Conference: Jig Up for Olmert, or Another Fade-Away Promise?

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Commentary;

Labor Party leader Ehud Barak promised the party that he would call for Olmert’s resignation in the period prior to the final Winograd report. But then he backtracked and Olmert remained.

It is interesting, in light of the above, that while he claims that Labor will quit the coalition of Olmert does not resign, he commits to no timetable as to an Olmert resignation or leave of absence.

The question is, are Barak’s threats shallow and meaningless, or will he carry through? read more

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Bibi’s NO Better Than Olmert

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Commentary;

It may be that Binyamin Netanyahu “could fix” “the situation in the western Negev” but, in reality, he’s not one iota better than Olmert.

The last lines in Gil Hoffman’s are telling;

He [Netanyahu] said that all of Jerusalem must remain in Israeli hands, to prevent it from falling to Hamas and to keep it safe for people from around the world.

“To prevent it from falling to Hamas and to keep it safe for people from around the world” — not a word about the holiness of Jerusalem. There is nothing in what Bibi said relating to Jerusalem as our eternal heart, that Jerusalem, that Har Habayit is the very seed and root of the Jewish people. read more

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With “Democracy” Like This, Who Needs Dictatorship?

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Israel has evolved from elective government to government by, of and for the unelected elite — those who control the flow of money and those who inculcate into the fertive minds of the masses — in state-run schools, the universities and in print and electronic MSM.

This blog has repeated made use of the media expression — etrog, to etrogize, etrogization; the protexia, protection and protective cover or shield placed around a governing leader leader who pursues the agendas of these unelected elite. This protexia extends to every make or manner of corruption and wrong-doing. read more

PM Olmert: Admit Damage You’ve Done to Israel and Resign

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Hat tip to Manhigut Yehudit for picture.

Commentary;

Ehud Olmert has done devastating damage to the nation of Israel and yet struts around struts around extolling the virtues of the disaster which he and his other stooges; Livni, Peretz, Halutz, etc., and Arik Sharon before him, set in motion beginning with the Expulsion of Jews from Gush Katif, the police riot in Amona, the kidnapping of the three young soldiers, the Lebanon conflict and the constant terror of Sderot and the Negev from Gaza. read more

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