📧 Communication

This document is a page from a memoir by Ehud Barak (page 121, House Oversight page 407). It details the political and military dynamics of the Gaza operation (Operation Cast Lead) and the subsequent Israeli elections (2009). Barak describes his disagreements with Prime Minister Olmert regarding the depth of the Gaza incursion, the eventual cease-fire on January 17, and the political fallout where Tzipi Livni won a narrow election victory but failed to form a coalition government against Benjamin Netanyahu.