or a major fotoop for those opposed to the government... or a budget that can be sacked and looted for frivolous political gains.

God bless, Israel; praying for the peace of Jerusalem!

"In a democratic country the government decides and the army salutes. " Indeed, and that Government is responsible to the Knesset and the Knesset is responsible to the people! In Israel, the Government is ruled by the Treasury and the cabinet ministers are more concerned with saving their own backsides than serving the people. In a democracy Cabinet Ministers who failed in their duties and caused the deaths of 44 people in the Government Service would have had the decency to resign! You and Eli Yishai are showing, the people of Israel, exactly what kind of people you are and the Prime Minister, by not have the courage to throw you out, is proving all the allegations of weakness! It is time for the Likud to clean its house and bring some respect back to the party!

ministry of the treasury. He probably thinks the arabs and the iranians are helping the I.D.F. to scare us. Look at the results of the second leb war and the cuts made by the min of fin bibi. We can do without steinie,bibi and ehud buraq. The same goes for the opposition. Cut all money to non Zionist groups. Tax the draft dodgers and do not give them child allowances.

I can understand that due to his coalition commitments Bibi has decided not to attend the meeting of the Committy. In the same time the position taken by Steinitz regarding the IDF warnings is in comple contradiction to his resposability as Finace Minister, as he forgets that in this quality he has to serve the entire country and not his loyality to Bibi and his party. It seems that in spite that he has a PHD he has a very short memory and that his refusal to transfer funds to the firefighters till they will not abandon their intention to be organised in a uninon has caused the Carmel desater. Now he cuts fuds for the IDF and I only hope that if a disaster will happen he will still be arround and will be judged by a court of justice and not by the State Controler.

But he is wasting funds for the haredim and for dubious settlements. This man must quit our governemnt and work for IKEA, with Netanyahu as his CEO. Steinitz, you are the classical dumbass.

There is no doubt about it. Mofaz's calling of the meeting is for one purpose only - to try and better his position in his party. As afar as the finance minister is concerned, his statement that... "In a democratic country the government decides and the army salutes."is nonsense. In a democratic country the government decides ONLY AFTER getting advice from the experts, and in this case the experts are the Leader(s) of the IDF. In this case Mr. Steinitz you are 100% wrong.

For all of the warnings israel gives about iran, israel under barak and bibi will not attack. For over 20 years, all of barak's pronouncements involve do nothing, empty missile shots, and mistaken judgement now demonstrated in saying assad will be gone in weeks. Assad in fact may with hezbollah and iranian help ride out the rebels. Bibi is hesitant and nervous and clings to his CO barak gnoring that yaalon is a much better soldier than barak ever was as he was hyped by the haaretz press. Iron dome batteries should be rushed to the scene-8 more of them to give israel some ability to shoot down missiles aimed at critical sites though it doesn't stop everything. J Post editorial on iron dome is so wrong equating costs of iron dome with costs of saving israeli lives. This is the same trash that amir oren peddles relentlessly. There is a reason barak will not be relected as an mk . The israeli public has no confidence in his military abiliites, none whatsoever. I don't and I am not waiting to seeany. For over 20 years I have seen nothing.

He is cutting funds to the I.D.F, He is allowing Israel to be on a strike for 4 days every couple of weeks. But instead of taking care of business and giving sub-contracted workers a living salary and giving the I.D.F ALL the means necessary to protect the state of Israel. He is giving unlimited funds to the haredim!!! I Understand why they can't go to the army. I understand it's because of the religion. I don't understand is why would you give them a penny to study when they don't even do National Services or contribute anything to the society. I don't want my tax money that I pay out of my pocket to go to them. If they want to study all day and all night they have the right to do that. BUT THEY need to pay for that NOT the tax payers. Our tax money needs to go to free education for everyone, for better roads so that there won't be accidents everyday, it needs to go the police so they will get some respect and be willing to be cops, it needs to go to the defense office so the Army can do it's job which is to protect the state of Israel and unfortunately protect the Illegal outposts. Instead of being concerned for the state of Israel both Steinitz and Yishai are more concerned about their seats in the government. It is time for BiBi to be a man and to kick Steinitz and Yishai out of their seats. Over the death of 44 people and for only caring about the haredim and themselves and NOT SERVING THE STATE OF ISRAEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!