Put your money down

April 29, 2007 - 3:25 PM by David Brinn

In most ‘normal’ countries, people have office pools or friendly bets about NFL Sunday, or the Red Sox-Yankees series. In Israel, there are pools about what date the government will fall.

Monday marks the publication date for the Winograd Committee’s interim report on the how government and military brass behaved before and during the Second Lebanon War last summer.

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One gone, two to go? – Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz, center, meet with former IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz

We already know that the report is going to come out with scathing conclusions about Olmert, and Peretz, and Halutz, and perhaps even the pita guy down the block for not keeping up with the fresh bread demand for those stuck for a month in bomb shelters.

But what’s on everyone’s mind – and in some wallets – is will any heads roll as a result of the report?

Associated of Olmert and Peretz say that no matter how hard the commission comes down on their conduct, they won’t quit -

But there are still plenty of folks willing to give decent odds that their days are numbered, and the good people of Israel will be going to the voting booths around the same time as they had off to the beach this summer.

Just for the sporting sake of it, put in you two cents here free of charge, and let us know not if you think there should be resignations (we don’t really care about your political opinions), but if you think there WILL be any resignations.

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