Mr. Defense
Minister:
We demand from you to resign immediately as a person which demonstrated strong inability to perform his duties - to organize the Israel defense from attacks of her enemies.
The last straw, that terminated our patience, became unpunished mortar attack on a military base 29.11, in which 8 Israeli soldiers were wounded. An immediate response to the firing gunmen or attack on the command-«government» targets of terrorists would be normal. But you are not accustomed to such answers neither when our soldiers are attacked, no when our civilians come under fire.
But the most important motivation to demand your immediate resignation as the Defense Minister, is a shame that you bring before the eyes of the world to the Israeli army and its people by inaction and by permanently non fulfilled threats against terrorists from Hamas, Fatah, Hizbollah that became already ridiculous.
We remember well how you transformed the withdrawal of troops from the southern Lebanon into a shameful flight that to large extent encouraged the beginning of the terrorist war in 2000.
We remember well that you gave to Arafat gas field off the coast of Gaza ...
We remember well your helplessness when it was necessary to save an Israeli soldier, wounded by Arafat’s beasts.
We remember well how you passed the tomb of Joseph to the Arab mob.
We remember well how you left without protection residents of the Jerusalem district of Gilo, attacked every day from Beit Jala. You frightened all Israel by a regional war if to try to expel the terrorists from Beit Jala. It was a lie. The problem was easily solved without you.
We remember well that when you virtually lost premiership, you were trying to give Arafat half of Jerusalem and almost all of Judea, Samaria and Gaza, thus binding by your already empty word the next Government.
We understand that your actions are well suited for a leader of a party that sees only one way to eliminate the terrorist threat: way of endless concessions to bandits, retreat under pressure of growing arrogant demands. By refusing to use military force, you give citizens a sense of hopelessness, inability to defeat terror by force, thus convincing them that the policy of your party is correct, while it had already failed long ago. These are actions of a marginalized politician, but not a Defense Minister, who has under his command well armed and trained troops.
We hope that you, once a brave officer, a hero of Israel, will now show again personal courage and will resign from the occupied position. Your stay there is extremely damaging to the country.
Professors M. Amusia, I. Felner, Y. Girshberg, A. Goldberg, I. Lapides, G. Leviev, Y. Okunev, M. Perel’man, E. Rapis.
Doctors
of Sciences E. Gelman, H. Halupovich, A. Kardash, E. Lein, F. Levich,
, E. Markov, E. Mastov, E. Mendzheritsky, D. Roginsky, G. Rubenstein,
M. Tsindleht, R. Zelichonok.
30.11.08
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