By P. David HornikImagine the outrage of the Bush administration's critics had the Iraq Study Group gone easy on President Bush because an alternative might result in the election of a Democrat to the White House. Such a scenario has just come to pass in Israel, where the Winograd Commission's report has rhetorically cushioned Prime Minister Olmert for his misconduct of the 2006 war with Hezbollah.
“If we think that the prime minister will advance the peace process, it is a serious consideration. The peace process, if successful, will save so many lives as to give it considerable weight. It is not right to look only at one side [of the issues].” Thus spake Prof. Yehezkel Dror, a member of Israel’s Winograd Commission, in an interview widely reported in the Israeli media last Wednesday.