Is anyone surprised? Is anyone even surprised that no one's surprised?
Ok-- so Winograd decided on their own (or actually, with Olmert and the High Court) to inject politics into a war report that criticizes a government which injected politics into a war.
However, one thing does surprise: no one, not one single member of Winograd Cmt., disapproved of the hijacking of the purpose of the committee enough to do something about it. For one and a half years, Israel has been led around like a dwarf on a rope.
A friend the other day asked in which direction-- left wing, right wing-- the country might go from here. My only possible response was to compare Israel's political situation to a plane in tailspin: you can't predict which direction it's going to go, other than down. |