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Posted on May 3, 2007
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Thousands of Israelis rally in Tel Aviv on Thursday in response to a report that criticized Prime Minister Ehud Olmert over his handling of the 2006 war in Lebanon. 

Tens of thousands of Israelis gathered in Tel Aviv on Thursday, calling for a new government. The protest was organized around the handling of the Lebanon war. A recent investigation blamed Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for a “serious failure in exercising judgment, responsibility and prudence.”


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Tens of thousands of Israelis are rallying in Tel Aviv, calling for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to quit over his handling of last year’s Lebanon war.

Demonstrators filled Rabin Square three days after an official interim report sharply criticised Mr Olmert’s role in launching and running the war.

Followers of political parties from across Israel’s often bitter political divides were attending the rally.

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By Leefeller, May 3, 2007 at 9:37 pm Link to this comment
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Well, I guess we are not the only county that thinks their Fearless leader sucks. When leaders of free countries, screw up at least the protesters can vent without being shot, at least for now.

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By DennisD, May 3, 2007 at 8:09 pm Link to this comment
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“Tens of thousands of Israelis gathered in Tel Aviv on Thursday, calling for a new government.”

The real question is why we’re not doing the same thing in this country.

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By ed_tru_lib, May 3, 2007 at 8:00 pm Link to this comment

Ouy Tran-On behalf of Osama bin Laden, Jerry Falwell, Joeseph Goebbelles, and others like them who depend for their very survival, much less success, on you and others at your intellectual level, thanks for your insightful comment..er..comments.

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By QuyTran, May 3, 2007 at 7:06 pm Link to this comment

New governement or old ones will be the same. An animal cannot be a hunam beings so don’t expect too much.

Once a beast always a beast !

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By QuyTran, May 3, 2007 at 7:05 pm Link to this comment

New governement or old ones will be the same. An animal cannot be a hunam beings so don’t expect too much.

One a beast always a beast !

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By ed_tru_lib, May 3, 2007 at 5:16 pm Link to this comment

What a heart-breaker it must be for all the lefty-loons, support-terrorists-at-any-price, and especially the outright terrorists(w/keyboards anyway if not rocket launchers) themselves who have long indicated at various truthdig sites that the only “justice” and acceptable peace in the middle east is the obliteration of Israel. Free, peaceloving, peaceseeking Israel, the only nation within a thousand square miles where there is a place to go-a democratically elected parliament-where people, including Arabs, many of whom are members, can express their dismay, anger, or even outright outrage without fear of they’re being able to go home alive.

Yup looks like a lot of people, including Jews, think that Ohmert messed up bigtime and ought to go, and NOT ONE of them is going to face a firing squad for “TREASON” the way they would in most of their “Allah blessed be his name” neighbor countries, or would in “palestine” itself if those types ever, to the eternal disgrace of humankind ( kind of like that little thing called the Holocaust) actually succeeded in winning back the territory that Jewish people have “occupied” for six thousand years.

To be sure , Ohmert is no Rabin; in fact he’s no Sadat, and his days, like those of his political equivalents in this country-McCain, Leiberman, Giuliani et al are obviously numbered. Thank whatever God or Spirit, real or imagined you beleive in, that free democratic Israel, will survive Ohmert, just as it has its enemies from without, and general screw-ups, from within. O and just parenthetically, anyone notice how much more peaceful FOR EVERYONE ON BOTH SIDES things have been since that o-so-horrid wall was built to keep out the schoolbus bombers, and thus prevent Israeli defence forces from having to retaliate against them. Looks like the (all too few) sincere opponents of the wall, were as wrong as the the outright nuts and terrorist-lovers. The wall sure looks to have been a good idea, at least in terms of little things like lives saved on both sides.

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