Israel’s Labor Party candidate for prime minister lashed out at his accusers after a state report cleared him of any blame stemming from a 1992 army training accident that killed five army commandos. “I have no use for apologies from cynical politicians who think the blood of Israeli soldiers” can be used for “political mud-slinging,” Ehud Barak said Monday.
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