Reservists present 'chilling' testimony | Jerusalem Post

Reservists present 'chilling' testimony | Jerusalem Post: "As the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee's subcommittee charged with investigating the recent war in Lebanon began to hear testimony Sunday morning from a dozen reservists who volunteered to appear at the Tel Aviv Fairgrounds, politicians proved to be a sideshow to the jeans-and-t-shirt clad men who came to tell their stories. Squinting and occasionally perplexed by the cameras thrust in their faces, officers and enlisted men, CEOs and students began to tell stories of long marches with no orders or goals, and lack of even the most basic equipment needed to fight a well-prepared enemy.

Subcommittee chair Tzahi Hanegbi opened the session saying that the MKs had published the advertisements calling for volunteers to testify because 'we want to feel what they felt and understand what they want from the government of Israel.'" Read complete post here.