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Bereaved parents: Halutz can't attend ceremony

Some parents threaten to boycott memorial ceremony for Second Lebanon War's fallen soldiers if then IDF chief comes. 'He wants authorization to return to politics,' says mother

Families of soldiers killed in the Second Lebanon War warned Sunday that they would boycott Monday's memorial ceremony in honor of their loved ones if the then IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz shows up.

 

One of these mothers is Liora Hasson, whose son Guy was killed. "Tomorrow will mark five years since that damned war in which you fell – it's last day. It is the annual day in which we go to Mount Herzl," Hasson wrote in a letter entitled "I'm sorry son".

 

 

"This year I will not be arriving, my son, because that failure of a chief of staff from 2006 wants to come to the ceremony to seek authorization for his political path."

 

The bereaved parents say it will be Halutz's second annual ceremony. "I feel great anger. Halutz should not be attending this ceremony. He's not coming out of the will to identify with the parents but rather out of an intention to return to politics," said Haim Tzemah, whose son is among the fallen.

 

Yoav Tzur, who lost his son Itamar, added, "I demand that he not show up and reopen our wounds. We have not forgiven him for his actions during the war."

 

Tzur explained, "He threw our son and his battalion into battle unprepared. I will not allow him to attend the ceremony."

 

Halutz confirmed that he will be attending the Mount Herzl ceremony Monday, and had no comment on the parents' objections.

 

 


פרסום ראשון: 07.18.11, 00:43
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