"Israeli" Families: Olmert Responsible for the Deaths of Our Children
Source: Al-Manar TV, 23-1-2008
Seven days before the Winograd Commission submits its conclusion on the performance of the "Israeli" political and military echelons during the Second Lebanon War, "Israeli" families, whose children were killed, will be submitting a damning "alternative report" to the Knesset in which they detail the circumstances of their loved ones' deaths.
The report also includes a conclusions chapter and parents have made personal recommendations. The detailed report, dozens of pages long, specifies societal and political ills that according to the authors are reflected in the "Israeli" political echelon's refusal to accept responsibility for the war's failures.
"The country's leaders during wartime, the people charged by virtue of their lofty posts with serving as an example to all of us of the way in which an honest person should conduct himself, are leading "Israeli" culture to realms in which those who wield power and capital control decision-making; where only those who cannot afford sufficient legal representation stand firm for [their] beliefs," the report reads. "A staggering majority of Cabinet ministers are behaving as if they are not the ones at the receiving end of the harsh statements made in the Winograd report. They go about their jobs as if their wartime conduct was not a failure, as if they do not know they have failed."
"Israeli" Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is severely castigated in the report, which states unequivocally that he should resign forthwith. "The prime minister has failed, and after reading [these] words he cannot remain in office for a single day more," the parents write and proceed to elaborate a number of grievances against Olmert. "The foolish attempt to present the [war's] final operation as a move that induced a positive change in the clauses of the truce agreement adds fuel to the flames of failure." "The ostentatious campaign of the last sixty hours [to the war] did not bring about any improvement in "Israel's" standing, but 34 families lost their loved ones in those sixty hours," they write.
"We do make personal conclusions, and that's why this is the true national report," says Ariela Goldman, who lost her son in the war. "We, the parents, are going into battle for the name of the war, its objectives; the true story. We are going into battle that is not only about personal [conclusions] but about national [conclusions]," she told Army Radio.
Uzi Dayan, chairman of the Tafnit party, who wrote the conclusions chapter of the report and has been an outspoken opponent of Olmert since the war, said the prime minister would be have to respond to the report's recommendations.
Seven days before the Winograd Commission submits its conclusion on the performance of the "Israeli" political and military echelons during the Second Lebanon War, "Israeli" families, whose children were killed, will be submitting a damning "alternative report" to the Knesset in which they detail the circumstances of their loved ones' deaths.
The report also includes a conclusions chapter and parents have made personal recommendations. The detailed report, dozens of pages long, specifies societal and political ills that according to the authors are reflected in the "Israeli" political echelon's refusal to accept responsibility for the war's failures.
"The country's leaders during wartime, the people charged by virtue of their lofty posts with serving as an example to all of us of the way in which an honest person should conduct himself, are leading "Israeli" culture to realms in which those who wield power and capital control decision-making; where only those who cannot afford sufficient legal representation stand firm for [their] beliefs," the report reads. "A staggering majority of Cabinet ministers are behaving as if they are not the ones at the receiving end of the harsh statements made in the Winograd report. They go about their jobs as if their wartime conduct was not a failure, as if they do not know they have failed."
"Israeli" Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is severely castigated in the report, which states unequivocally that he should resign forthwith. "The prime minister has failed, and after reading [these] words he cannot remain in office for a single day more," the parents write and proceed to elaborate a number of grievances against Olmert. "The foolish attempt to present the [war's] final operation as a move that induced a positive change in the clauses of the truce agreement adds fuel to the flames of failure." "The ostentatious campaign of the last sixty hours [to the war] did not bring about any improvement in "Israel's" standing, but 34 families lost their loved ones in those sixty hours," they write.
"We do make personal conclusions, and that's why this is the true national report," says Ariela Goldman, who lost her son in the war. "We, the parents, are going into battle for the name of the war, its objectives; the true story. We are going into battle that is not only about personal [conclusions] but about national [conclusions]," she told Army Radio.
Uzi Dayan, chairman of the Tafnit party, who wrote the conclusions chapter of the report and has been an outspoken opponent of Olmert since the war, said the prime minister would be have to respond to the report's recommendations.
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