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(IsraelNN.com) Almagor, a group which represents terror victims, said Sunday that the government's decision regarding the deal with Hizbullah means that the Second Lebanon War has ended in a fiasco and "all of the government's promises and bravado faded with a whimper."

Almagor chairman, Lieut.-Col. (res.) Meir Indor said: "The governments' duty now is to explain to 117 families of the fallen soldiers in the Second Lebanon War, and to the families of civilian victims who died during the war, why did Israel go to war when it could have surrendered to the Hizbullah's demands from the outset?"

When Israel attacked in Lebanon 2006, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the main objective was to rescue the abducted soldiers.