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...Israelis portrayed in the museum are either dead (in mannequin form) war-crazed (in photos of Israeli school children writing hate messages on artillery shells) or incompetent. "We will eradicate Hizballah within three days," trumpets a poster of former Israeli General Dan Halutz, while next to him former Defense Minister Amir Peretz looks through a pair of binoculars with the lens caps still...
...Israeli military official during the 2006 Lebanon war, currently a student at a Harvard Business School program for experienced executives, has come under withering criticism from an Israeli panel for his conduct during the war. Dan Halutz, who resigned as chief of staff of the Israeli Defense Forces in February, was harshly reproached in the preliminary report of a commission led by retired judge Eliyahu Winograd. “The chief of staff failed in his duties as commander in chief of the army and as a critical part of the political-military leadership, and exhibited flaws in professionalism, responsibility...
LIEUT. GENERAL DAN HALUTZ, Israel's military commander, in a resignation letter announced Jan. 17, explaining why he stepped down after the army's failure to defeat Hizballah in Lebanon last summer...
...Critics say Peretz's inexperience in security matters showed during the Lebanon war, when the defense minister issued conflicting orders of advance and retreat to his generals. By now, Peretz should have learned the first rule of military strategy: never leave your flank exposed. But that is exactly what Halutz's departure has done: With the general gone, Peretz will be next in line to take a bullet for the Lebanon fiasco. Olmert will be glad to see him go; according to an opinion poll last week, Peretz's approval rating hit bottom at 1%, a fallout over the military...
...Halutz may have left, but the political battle has just started. Meanwhile, from Lebanon, Hizballah's televison network gleefully reported Halutz's resignation as proof of the militia's victory against Israel...