Even the Obvious Needs to Be Stated

by MK By Arieh Eldad

The State Comptroller’s report on the Home Front does not tell the public anything it did not know.

Can words be mightier than the sights hundreds of thousands of refugees saw in the North? Can data and conclusions and recommendations be more deafening than the sounds of sirens and explosions? Can the governmental vacuum revealed in the report be emptier than the vacuum in our hearts caused by the absence of 160 war dead?

Seemingly, the Comptroller has not revealed anything new. We read, “The findings elaborated here show that the prime minister, Mr. Ehud Olmert, Amir Peretz, the government ministers, the former chief of staff Dan Halutz, the Home Front commanding officer General Yitzhak Gershon – each of them to his own extent failed seriously in the decision making process, assessments and policy execution in their relating to and dealing with the Home Front during the Lebanese War.” Did we not know all this during the war, even when we still hoped that the IDF would manage to make up for the nullity, carelessness and foolishness of the prime minister and his ministers? READ MORE