Ya'alon says Israel's leaders should quit for Lebanon failures

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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Defense Minister Amir Peretz and Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz should take responsibility for their failures during the second Lebanon war and resign, former IDF chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. (res.) Moshe Ya'alon said Thursday.

Ya'alon, whom polls show would be a serious candidate for prime minister if he decided to run with the Likud, blamed prime minister Ariel Sharon's Gaza Strip disengagement for causing the war.

Responding to charges from Olmert's associates blaming his polices as IDF chief for the war, Ya'alon told The Jerusalem Post, in his first interview with an Israeli media outlet since his return from the US last week, that until disengagement, Hizbullah had restrained itself, but that withdrawing unilaterally from Gaza had encouraged it to attack.

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This is particularly funny:

If Syria and Iran didn't pay a price, he said, it would put into question Israel's achievements in the war.

Jpost

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1. While Ya'alon might be correct

frankly he's the wrong person to say so. I good part of the IDF's failures were due to trends which have occured over the tenure of the last several CoS', including himself.

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2. Yes, a certain irony there.

Probably no accident he is "speaking up" now, although I think he would do better to stay quiet.