The State Comptroller has withheld a report critical of PM Sharon's handling of the disengagement process, due to the prime minister's deteriorating medical condition. The State Comptroller, charged with investigating government corruption, inefficiency, and ineptitude, has decided to delay publication of a report criticizing implementation of the disengagement plan, due to Sharon’s deteriorating health.
The State Comptroller, Micha Lindenstrauss, a retired judge, has prepared a report critical of the government’s handling of the disengagement from Gaza and northern Samaria, and its treatment of the Jewish refugees who were forced from their homes.
The report examines the entire disengagement process, beginning with setting up the Expulsion Authority, known officially as the Sela Adminstration, up until the actual expulsion and efforts to resettle the refugees. The report also looks at the effects of the disengagement on communities bordering the Gaza district. Lindenstrauss said the report, which was supposed to be published this week, would not be released “due to Prime Minister Sharon’s health condition.”
Does the Israeli state comptroller really think that a poor mark for the Sharon government over the disengagement from Gaza could make Sharon’s health situation more dire than it is already or that it will even adversely effect the Prime Minister’s potential chance for recovery? Even if Sharon comes out of his “medically induced” coma with his faculties relatively unscathed I seriously doubt that he will be in any position to read the report for some time to come. I say, release away.
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