From the Independent…

Ehud Olmert’s decision to go to war in Lebanon in response to abductions of soldiers was taken as early as March 2006, according to a leak of his evidence to the commission investigating the war.
The report means that the military strategy was decided more than three months before it was triggered by Hizbollah’s abductions of two soldiers on Israel’s northern border in July. Israeli officials said this was broadly in line with what the Prime Minister has already told the cabinet.
Mr Olmert partly used his appearance two weeks ago before the Winograd Commission to defend himself against charges that the government stumbled unprepared into the five-week war.
But the report will fuel claims by some international critics of the operation that Israel, and perhaps the US, had for some time decided in favour of a military confrontation with the Lebanese group.

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