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...During a Monday session of the Knesset, Olmert was heckled by legislators as he admitted "deficiencies" in the way the war was handled. The opposition leader, Benjamin Netanyahu of the right-wing Likud party, and the likeliest challenger to Olmert's coalition cabinet, then went on to list what he described as the government's multiple "failures" in readying for war, protecting israelis from Hizballah bombardments and carrying out an indecisive campaign. In a rare show of unity, Likud right-wingers and Labor legislators joined to call for a high-level inquiry into all that went wrong...
...structural causes of the Democrats’ serial ineptitude as an opposition party. Among the many flaws of our reified Constitution is that it intentionally undermines the development of parliamentary-style political parties. There is no platform from which to articulate a unified opposition ideology. Instead of a shadow cabinet that directly opposes the government, we have a system that makes minority leaders little more than first among equals.And as a result, the U.S. electorate has to content itself with the general gestalt of “opposition,” which usually amounts to “blame...
...Israeli military, and it may even threaten Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's coalition government. Israelis overwhelmingly supported Olmert's initial decision to strike hard against Hizballah. But the latest opinion polls by Yediot Ahronot newspaper show a drop in the public's confidence with Olmert, his war cabinet and with the generals...
...wariness over plunging back into what Israelis remember as their own Vietnam may help explain Israel's caution over expanding the ground war. And so even though the Israeli cabinet on Wednesday gave Prime Minister Ehud Olmert the authority to order a wider invasion, Israeli officials made clear that ordering such an move further north into Lebanon would wait a few days to see the outcome of the diplomatic wrangling...
...Just how far into Lebanon the Israelis should advance - and how long they should stay - is the subject of rancorous debates in Israeli cabinet meetings and war rooms. Israeli leaders are haunted by the specter of the last Israeli invasion of Lebanon to root out a terror threat, in 1982. That operation had also been intended to be a quick and surgical operation, but it dragged on for 18 years and cost the lives of close to 2,000 Israeli soldiers before Israel withdrew and left the border area to Hizballah...