Breach of Trust Continues Unabated

Ha’aretz is reporting that the Reserve Officer’s protest movement continues to grow:

Support for the reserve soldiers' protests aimed at bringing down the government has widened, with the leader of a 1973 war protest joining the effort, along with parents of soldiers who fell in Lebanon during the past month of fighting.

Motti Ashkenazi, who as a young reserve officer after the 1973 Yom Kippur war spearheaded a protest that spurred a state inquiry and which hastened the end of decades of Labor rule in israel, joined with reservists at their protest tent in Jerusalem.

The reserve soldiers are demanding the resignations of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Defense Minister Amir Peretz, and IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz, over their conduct of the war.

Ashkenazi told Israel Radio that when he spoke to young men of his son's generation "about what is going on today in the army, I said, 'Just a moment, what are they talking about? They are talking about me and the wars in which I participated. "That is absurd," Ashkenazi said. "I feel that the earth is moving under our feet."

But Ashkenazi is not the only one. Now bereaved parents of fallen Israeli soldiers have added their voice to the protest as well. While the public calls for their heads of the Kadima coalition, this current Israeli administration continues to dither in the hopes that the public gets distracted. Unless there is an open revolt in the Knesset, this government will not fall but will continue to dither itself out of electoral existence.