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| By: israelinsider staff and partners |
| Published: August 10, 2006 |
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Haaretz Correspondent Aluf Benn paints a grim picture of bickering, chaos and indecision within the Israeli cabinet.
"The results of the vote do not reflect the ministers' true opinions. 'If everyone voted the way they spoke, there would be a majority opposing the proposal,' one minister said. So why didn't anyone vote against the proposal? We were afraid, the minister explained, of showing the public and the Hezbollah that there are rifts within the government and cracks in its support for the IDF."
"The problem," he writes, "is that such cracks exist and no one is really making an effort to hide them anymore." One minister said "everyone was involved in at least one quarrel."
Former Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz feels he was set up to present a plan only to have it shot down. And only a "reprieve" by Condi Rice saved Olmert and the Cabinet from making a real decision. But the moment of truth arrives on Friday.
Read Benn's full column |
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