Transcripts from the Winograd Committee reveal that Cabinet Minister Yitzchak Herzog (Labor) testified that if the Second Lebanon War had broken out two or three years later, the results would have been far more disastrous. "I think that with time, without our realizing our own weaknesses,... terrorist organizations like Hizbullah would have had access to weapons of mass destruction," he stated.
Herzog, now Welfare Minister, said that the "Prime Minister woke up one day to a [new] position and matters of defense were foreign to him." He made harsher comments concerning former Defense Minister Amir Peretz and former IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz.
"The general feeling is that the IDF did not supply the goods," he testified. "Everyone had a feeling that the Air Force was taking care of the rocket launchers. He also castigated the media. "Channel One television reported that we are in the Carlton, and Katyushas fell on the Carlton. It was obvious they [Hizbullah] they were listening to the Israeli media."