Thursday, September 14, 2006
Holy Murder. posted by Richard Seymour
For fuck's sake! Did you see Olmert testifying to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee the other day? I missed it, but it was reported in Haaretz at the time, and apparently its mentioned by Patrick Cockburn in the Independent today. He cannot, you see, understand what all the big fuss is about:MK Ran Cohen (Meretz), who called Olmert's appearance before the committee "haughty," said everyone in Israel knows the war is the forerunner for the next one. "This war ended in complete failure," Cohen added.
Banging on the table angrily in response to the criticism, Olmert said, "I'm sorry that some MKs have lost their sense of proportion. Stop exaggerating.
"No danger to Israel was revealed during the past month. You didn't know that Hezbollah had 12,000 missiles in Lebanon? You didn't know that Iran supported them?"
Olmert also told the committee that "there were failures in the war, but there were also amazing achievements. Has the U.S. collapsed after three years in Iraq? What's the panic? We all make mistakes, I first of all."
"What did you think, that there would be a war and nothing would happen to our soldiers," Olmert asked the committee. "The claim that we lost is unfounded. Half of Lebanon is destroyed; is that a loss?"
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