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For two years, since Israel's catastrophic misadventure in Lebanon and the inability of the Israeli body politic to rid itself of the weak and indecisive Olmert Government, I have had to listen to critiques of Condi Rice here on this forum as apologists for Israeli weakness criticized her instead of aiming their fire where it belonged, at the Israeli Government.

Do not believe, even for a moment, that the present Israeli Government can survive the collapse in Lebanon and its indecision in Gaza. It can't, and it shouldn't.

The problem was never with the Americans, as the conduct of our forces in Iraq proved. It lay always with a weak and indecisive Israel. Time to clean house in Jerusalem.

I await the responses from the Usual Suspects who claim that Israel is without fault here.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[JerseyHighlander]

You post with anime using Debka as a source.

As the saying goes, you fail the internet.

[Perdogg]

Debka is not the most reliable source.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

While I agree with you that the Olmert Government is weak and needs to be replaced, I always take DEBKA with a grain of salt.

[Williams]

Whether the story is correct or not:

Maybe President Bush was rebuking the liberal Israeli government, not Barack Obama.

The problem definitely is the Israeli government. They are doing nothing on the military front, nothing effective anyway.

[Cicero]

I couldn’t agree with you more about Olmert & his leftist pals, and I have said so on virtually every thread on this subject. Plenty of other Freepers agree, too.

I don’t think that lets Condi off the hook, however. She has turned into a wholly-owned subsidiary of the State Department Arabists, if you ask me.

[monkeyshine]

The Israeli government must fall. I’m shocked its still intact. The signals couldn’t be more clear - President Bush just named Hezbullah and Hamas our enemies and the Israeli government is too busy trying to sweep up corruption scandals to get the message.

Why the right parties remain in the Israeli government at this point boggles my mind. They should bolt.

[SJackson]

Personally I doubt Debka, but if Condi "pressured" Israel to mount what would likely be a full on invasion of Lebanon as in 1982, with the expectation is would be over in 3 days or 3 months, she should be fired immediately, and transported to Walter Reed for a mental health assessment.