MK Yuli Edelstein (Likud) said Sunday that Ehud Barak bears responsibility for creating the situation that led to the 2006 Second Lebanon War. Barak, a former IDF chief of staff, was the prime minister who ordered Israel's hasty retreat from the South Lebanon security zone in May, 2000. 

"After all," said Edelstein, "the first kidnapping of IDF soldiers (by Lebanese terrorists) occurred while he (Barak) was prime minister. That incident left him completely dumbfounded; he failed even to fight Hizbullah. Now, he prefers to avoid taking responsibility in order to cling to his position, just like the rest of his colleagues in this government."