Also In Israel: IDF Chief Resigns, PM Olmert Told To Quit and 2nd In Command Perez May Leave, Too

As I wrote about last summer and early fall, many in Israel on both the right and the left were not at all happy with the way Israel conducted the invasion in Lebanon, a war that although Israel commanded much bigger and better fire power, the Israeli Defense Forces or IDF took a substantial number of losses (nothing like the slaughter of hundreds of Lebanese civilians, but still considerable considering what Israel had: the best weapons the U.S. could and did provide.

Today, yet another IDF chief (Halutz) announced his resignation (thousands in Beirut, Lebanon, celebrated the news) and the calls keep coming - as they have since the Lebanon debacle - for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Ariel Sharon's hand-picked replacement, to leave office. We also learn from Ha'aretz that Olmert and his second in command, Shimon Peretz, have clashed over the "right" replacement for the IDF's Halutz and that Peretz may leave the government.