Strategic Assessment
Research Forum | November 2006
In interviews he gave before Rosh Hashanah, which are in effect the first draft of his testimony to the government investigation commission he appointed, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said, "The results of the second war in Lebanon will look better with time." Like most of the comments on the thirty-three days of war, this sentence can be interpreted in different ways. The dwindling number of Olmert supporters consider this a great truth that reflects how shortsighted the public is, and how it is influenced by the populist media. Opponents will argue that Olmert is trying to turn black into white and convince himself and the entire nation that what the eye sees and the heart feels is simply not true.
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