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| By israelinsider staff May 1, 2007 |
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Following are Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's remarks on the Winograd Committee, which he read from a text in a videotape distributed to news media:
"Good evening. This afternoon I received the first part of the Winograd Committee report. The Government established the Committee seven months ago in order to examine the Second Lebanon War.
I have studied the main points of the report. The report is grave and harsh. There were achievements. There were failures by the main decision-makers with myself at their head. Lessons must be drawn. Faults -- and they are many -- must be corrected. There is much to do. I intend to act in order to correct everything that needs correcting, thoroughly and quickly.
I intend to convene a special Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, 2.5.07. I will propose that a team be appointed to quickly study the report and implement the necessary lessons.
It would be incorrect to resign and I do not intend to do so.
This Government made the decisions and this Government will correct the faults.
From our point-of-view, the submission of the report does not close a chapter in the war. The submission of the report opens a new -- and no less important -- chapter, that of correcting the faults and learning the lessons.
This evening, I am thinking about the bereaved families who lost loved ones in this just and unavoidable war. I am thinking about the wounded and I am thinking about Udi, Eldad and Gilad Shalit. Like all of Israel, I believe that it will be possible to bring them back home quickly.
Lastly, I would like to thank the Committee of Inquiry -- its Chairman, retired judge Eliyahu Winograd, and its members: Prof. Ruth Gavison, Prof. Yehezkel Dror, Maj.-Gen. (res.) Menachem Einan and Dr. Chaim Nadel, for their serious, thorough and dedicated work." |
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