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Netanyahu: Those who erred cannot stay to fix their mistakes


By Stan Goodenough
May 03, 2007

Israeli opposition lead Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday skewered the Olmert government for its failed execution of the Second Lebanon War.

In a blistering speech in the Knesset, the Likud Party leader and former prime minister decried the self-saving efforts of those in the government who say they will now use the opportunity to put right the mistakes they made last summer.

The majority of Israelis believed that a new leadership was needed.

“Those who failed at war cannot be those who correct the failures,” he said.

The special Knesset session was held two days after the Winograd Committee released some of its findings into the way the war against Lebanon’s Hizb’allah was carried out.

According to the committee, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert failed to lead the country into the war after deciding to wage it. He allowed himself to be led by the nose by military officials, who along with then-IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz also failed their country.

The Second Lebanon War, as the conflict has been officially called, cost the lives of more than a hundred Israelis and failed to achieve any of the objectives laid out by Olmert at the outbreak.

While the prime minister had vowed that Israel would fight to secure the release of two kidnapped IDF soldiers and would deal the Iranian-backed Hizb’allah a body blow, Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser remain in captivity and the terrorist organization is today better equipped and more popular than it was before the war.

Polls taken in Israel since the release of the Winograd report show that a majority of voters want Olmert and his defense minister, Amir Peretz, to “go home.”

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