News Brief10:10 AM

(IsraelNN.com) Reserve officer Eyal Ben Reuven, who served as deputy to the head of the Northern Command during the Second Lebanon War, has called on Prime Minister Olmert to take responsibility for failures in the war and to resign. He told Voice of Israel government radio Tuesday morning that the main failure in the war was the government's mismanagement.

He charged that government made the military establishment subservient to its policies and that Prime Minister Olmert instructed former IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz to strike back at Hizbullah as hard as possible. Ben Reuven said it was a clear that the IDF was not moving in the right direction.