Pity that this man is not doing everything possible to eliminate Hezbollah threat to his homeland.
Posted on 08/11/2006 3:02:44 PM PDT by Dark Skies
Ehud Olmert may decide to accept the French proposal for a cease-fire and unconditional surrender to Hezbollah. That is his privilege. Olmert is a prime minister whom journalists invented, journalists protected, and whose rule journalists preserved. Now the journalists are saying run away. That's legitimate. Unwise, but legitimate.
However, one thing should be clear: If Olmert runs away now from the war he initiated, he will not be able to remain prime minister for even one more day. Chutzpah has its limits. You cannot lead an entire nation to war promising victory, produce humiliating defeat and remain in power. You cannot bury 120 Israelis in cemeteries, keep a million Israelis in shelters for a month, wear down deterrent power, bring the next war very close, and then say - oops, I made a mistake. That was not the intention. Pass me a cigar, please.
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
Pity that this man is not doing everything possible to eliminate Hezbollah threat to his homeland.
As long as Hezbollah keeps their goal of killing Jews it does indeed meet the definition of defend.
And while they are doing all of this, Iran and Syria will be busy resupplying Hezbollah. Geez, what are they thinking!!!! They are going to use the exact same forces that allowed Hezbollah to tunnel and put thousands of rockets on the border. and Israel is agreeing to this... The Arab world will definitely look at this as a victory for Hezbollah. Israel won nothing. I guess the President is a political creature after all and not a man of principle. He wants Republicans to win in the Fall and he thinks he needs to say they were behind Middle East peace.
If Olmert is dumped we will get Peres or Livni.
If you all want to write Olmert or Bibi
eulmert@knesset.gov.il
bnetanyahu@knesset.gov.il
That is nonsense. Israelis talk one way and work another. It is confusing, but it is true. Most of Israel's economy comes, not from kibbutzes, but from a fairly healthy capitalist economy. Even in social services Israel gets away with what looks like a far-left system, but the intensive religious networks and the care given within them actually allows the government to slip by most of the costs we associate with it.
Being a conservative and a Jew, I have never, never, figured out how my co-religionists, with all sincerity, do one thing and believe another. It is an enormous blind spot which I have never figured out.
I once wrote on FR that any Jew who believes in a strong central government has a learning disability. And, I am sorry to say, most of us do.
I work in academe. Nowadays, Jews who support Judaism or Israel are not very popular. We are treated to all the little anti-Semitic nonsense that you would expect from, say, the 1940's. But we continue to support these mega-Universities in which those who hate us receive their pay. I can't figure it out.
But not fight. H*ll, yes we will.
McVey
No bull...The officials have been contacted and have already approved of the surrender...Sunday's meeting is just a technicality...
Makes sense. It's an interesting article; I just couldn't help myself.
Un. Freaking. Believable.
Oh, and just a minor point - there are more than 100 dead Israelis, thousands wounded, literally hundreds of thousands in shelters or evacuated out of the north, the economy of the north in ruins...and Israel's soldiers are still held hostage, and Hezbollah still has weapons and position, and the IDF's reputation as a far superior and ruthless force in the Mideast is GONE - not in tatters, FREAKING GONE!
This guy makes Carter look like Teddy Roosevelt. He's such a complete putz that he should probably be brought up on charges of treason and imprisoned or shot. I am anguished over this while sitting comfortably and safely some 7,000 miles away - I cannot imagine how uncontrollably incensed I'd be if I lived there and had lost a family member.
And the Erev Rav SOB still talks about giving territory to the Pallies, of uprooting Jews from land and homes that are legally and morally theirs - in the name of making more square miles Judenfrei. The world is turned upside down - or, rather, has reverted to 1938. Now, after all of these years of wondering how people felt back then, I finally have some sense of it - and the feeling is one of dread, of wondering if our civilization will survive at all, or in a form that we'd recognize and be comfortable with.
Look for MUCH, MUCH more terrorism, and look for a big war in the Mideast in the not-terribly-distant future. I mourn for Israel, and I mourn for the US. We are in a world of schit, and this poor excuse for a man and leader is largely to blame...as are Peres and Sharon and Bush/Rice.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE - Israelis MUST turn this traitor and his accomplices out of office. Once the immediate shooting stops, the streets must be filled - shut the country down until Olmert leaves in disgrace. Have new elections, put into place an Israeli Churchill to prepare for the coming war (and to possibly avert it - if that's even possible now).
I used to call Bibi in late 80s early 90s the Israeli amb to CNN he was on it so much.
Not if a no confidence motion passes - then there are new elections, and those two creatures are almost as much to blame as Foolmert.
Damned right - we're not hopping into cattle cars and walking into gas chambers again. We just need to get rid of the modern day Judenrat, to untie the hands of those who have faith in G-d and in the righteousness of Israel's cause.
Amen!
lol...no prob.
Let's hope and pray that you're right. If not, then this is the biggest surrender since Munich, and it will have similar consequences for the world and the Jews.
Colonel Hunt just said on FOX:
"WHO WILL SIGN THE AGREEMENT FOR HEZBOLLAH?"
Apparently Lahoud will sign on behalf of the hezbos.
This looks like a big win for the hezbos.
Look for big time celebration in Lebanon all over the news.
The hezbos will now have plenty of time to re-arm for their next big attack.
Omert needs to go now.
Looks like he will sign on behalf of the hezbos:
His Excellency President Lahoud
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