A crowd estimated to be between 100,000 and 200,000 marchers gathered in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square to demand the resignations of Prime Minister Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz, after the Winograd report on the Second Lebanon War was critical of their handling of last summer’s war with Hezbullah.

Olmert never would have been elected PM if Ariel Sharon had not been debilitated and on life-support.

Watching what was going on from here it appeared Israel, for the first time, was tentative in a war not started by them. Soldiers who were kidnapped first by the Palestinians and then by Hezbullah have still not been released, and their fates are still unknown.

It didn’t help that UN observers were feeding Israeli movements and positions to Hezbullah.

I can remember donating to a fund to get people out of the Haifa area to go to the sea where they could have a few days of peace before going back to the war zone where missiles were landing all around them.

Israel has a parliamentary form of government, which means when enough of the coalition of political supporters have become unhappy with the current government a vote of no confidence can be taken, and if it passes, a new election will have to be held.

Israel does seem to be led by a weak leader from where I sit, but I’m not an expert on it either.

100,000 to 200,000 people rallying against the PM and Minister of Defense in that small country is a large number, and the politicians are just sitting back salivating at the opportunity to run the country again.

Here’s hoping and praying they get a strong leader when they do change.