Posted on 08/17/2006 3:37:53 AM PDT by goldstategop
(IsraelNN.com) A group of reserve soldiers, who were recently discharged and are setting up a forum, have called upon Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Defense Minister Amir Peretz, and Foreign Minister Tsipi Livni to resign. Tonight the soldiers will be holding a demonstration at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv at 7p.m. The demonstration is expected to be the first of several, under the banner, You failed resign!
In a petition publicized by the forum, the public is asked to sign the following: We are very worried about the fate of the country. From all ends of the political spectrum, we are calling upon the government, headed by the prime minister, to take personal responsibility for its failure and resign. We believe that we have the power as individuals rallying together, to declare, Never again!
It's Bibi Time!!!
What took so long?
Pretty much - he's comparable to Churchill, having been stuck in the political wilderness for years, warning about the coming storm.
I thought Olmert was supposed to be a skinny Sharon.
More like a Jewish Neville Chamberlain or Jimmy Carter.
The Israeli's should of cut-off Lebanon at the Letani River on day one and squeezed. Once surrounded the Hezzies could of been dealt with in very short order. None of the running and hiding in Beirut. Wars on the cheap (limited) will be the downfall of the West.
Americans voted for Bill Clinton twice.
Hard to believe too!
I believe only Americans with Cranial Rectal Insertion Syndrome voted for klinton.
The point isn't that the plan was not perfect, but rather that the politicians threw it out, and "winged" it. Political leaders need enough military, and for that matter other non-political, experience to know when they are being given the smoke and mirrors treatment, and when to listen to their experts. The current Israeli leadership, and some of ours, (Rumsfeld was a Navy pilot) don't really meet that requirement.
Perhaps you should do your homework before you act all knowing. Right now, I am thinking the Isreali veteran knew more about his army than you do.
Aramaic: Gamla ("the Camel")
Fortified hillside town in the Golan 7 miles east of the Sea of Galilee, built on inaccessible slopes below a ridge shaped like the humps of a camel. Gamala was the hometown of Judah "the Galilean," who led a tax revolt against the Romans in 6 CE & whose descendents were leaders of radical revolutionary factions up through the war with Rome. Josephus reinforced the fortifications of the city; & it was the last settlement in the north to hold out against the Romans [67 CE]. Rather than submit to capture the defenders jumped to their death in the ravines below. For modern archaeologists the primary importance of Gamala is its 65' x 53' synagogue, the only undisputed structure for public Jewish worship datable to the early 1st c. CE that has yet been discovered in Palestine.
References:
Josephus, Antiquities 13.394-396; 18.4;
_____, War 1.105, 166; 4.4-8, 11-54, 62-83;
_____, Life 46-47, 58, 61, 114, 177-179, 183-185.
For further recent information about archaeological & historical evidence, see:
Rousseau, John J. & Rami Arav. Jesus & His World. (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995) pp. 100-104.
Gamala: The Northern Masada. Selections from Josephus about Gamala, including his eye-witness account of the Roman siege.
Gamla. Donald D. Binder provides detailed photos & archaeological sketches focused on the excavations of the synagogue [SMU].
Archaeology in Israel: Gamla. article about the site, its history & artifacts in The Jewish Magazine (March 2000).
Good gad.
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