Word: winograd
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...There was no surprise, then, in the damning preliminary report released Monday by the Winograd Commission, appointed by Olmert to investigate the conduct of the war amid the barrage of criticism that followed its termination - indeed, parts of it had been leaking into the media for days. Still, even Israel's jaded commentariat found the tone of the report surprisingly harsh. Some derivation of the word "failure" appears several times on almost every page of the release...
...failed to persuade voters to reelect them. Both men have so far refrained from moving in for the kill, lest they seem overzealous of taking advantage of what was a national calamity. Or perhaps they sense that Olmert has been mortally wounded, and will be unable to survive the Winograd judgment regardless of his own intentions. Not only have his approval ratings crashed to around 2 percent, but he is also under official investigation over allegations of financial misdoings - although these probes will take time to reach their conclusion...
...position as leader of the Labor Party, the main coalition partner of Olmert's Kadima party. Peretz, too, may choose to resign instead of waiting to be sacked. Most likely, says one Peretz aide, he will wait until after the official inquiry into the Lebanon debacle, the Winograd Commission, is completed next month. If the report blames Peretz, he will then resign or consent to be moved to a lesser cabinet post, his aides say. The defense portfolio would most likely go to one of Peretz's two challengers as Labor leader, either ex-Prime Minister Ehud Barak...