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...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...
...politicians to address the rally lest any one speaker offend the others. But even the anodyne lineup of writers and pop stars wasn't enough to prevent controversy. Several crowd members shouted down performers because they thought playing music offensive to the memory of the soldiers killed in Lebanon...
...Israel's vaunted security precautions were barely in place. A photographer and I strolled into the square without anyone checking our bags for weapons or bombs. Having covered massive demonstrations in Lebanon over the past two years, I couldn't help but think that Hizballah would never have run such a Mickey Mouse protest...
...think Don Imus should have been fired? -Hoziah Outland, Lebanon, Pa.The dialogue is more important than Imus. The fact that we are discussing race is inspiring. I didn't care what happened to him. What he said was hurtful: the difference between those words coming out of a rapper's mouth and his mouth is that when a rapper says them, they are not racial. If I walk up to a black man on the street and say "nigger" with a blank expression, nine times out of 10 he would hug me. That is a fact...
...Israeli government report on the 2006 Lebanon war excoriated him for his "very severe failures." His approval rating hovers around 3%. Now his Foreign Minister has called for him to resign. Yes, it has been a difficult stretch for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel. But Olmert has told his critics to "slow down" and called an emergency cabinet meeting, after which he said he would take the report's findings to heart but had no intention of resigning...