Israel follows the U.S. path in other ways too

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Israel's Defense Ministry has suspended a review* of the military's performance during the war against Hezbollah, awaiting a government decision on whether to order a broader inquiry, officials said Tuesday.

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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is under growing public pressure* to approve an independent investigation, with the power to dismiss top officials. Some reserve soldiers and bereaved parents have already demanded that Olmert and other wartime leaders step down.*

The war, launched just hours after Hezbollah guerrillas killed three Israeli soldiers and captured two in a cross-border raid July 12, enjoyed broad public support at the outset*, but lost favor after Olmert accepted a U.N.-brokered truce without crushing Hezbollah or winning the captives' release.*

The deaths of 34 soldiers in last-minute battles just before the truce took hold only deepened the outrage, as have reports that the military was so ill-prepared that it didn't even have enough food, water or bullets for its fighters.*

Olmert, in office just two months when the war broke out, has pinned some of the blame on his predecessors,* saying they had ignored the Lebanese guerrilla group's arms buildup.

• trying to skate past accountability

• growing public dissatisfaction with an ill-conceived and possibly illegal war

• a move to censure or impeach

• gaining public support through manipulation of public opinion

• a failed war

• lack of essential support for the troops

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