Israel's Terminal Illness (Jewish State On Its Deathbed Unless Olmert Is Gone Alert)

Worldnetdaily.com ^ | 08/18/06 | Joseph Farah

[goldstategop]

We've all known brave soldiers who fought courageously in multiple conflicts only to succumb to lingering and debilitating illnesses years later.

Likewise, history tells us of nations that never lost a battle in combat only to die because they lost their sense of purpose, their will to survive.

I think that's what is happening in Israel today. I think the Jewish state is terminally ill.

Israel may have won three major wars in its 60-year history, but it will be lucky to survive another decade of morally bankrupt leadership.

It's not just former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon who is comatose. It seems the whole current Israeli government is brain dead.

How else can one explain Israel's agreement to Lebanon cease-fire terms that amount to unconditional surrender?

I know few other commentators who have explained the development in these stark terms, but this is the reality of what Ehud Olmert's government has done. It represents, in my opinion, one of the biggest strategic blunders in the history of the country.

Let's review what Israel has done:

It launched a war on Iran-directed Hezbollah terrorists after they kidnapped two Israeli soldiers, killed eight others and rocketed northern Israel towns. From the beginning, Israel demanded the return of its troops and the disarming of Hezbollah terrorists.

What did Israel get in the cease-fire deal? No return of the kidnapped troops and Hezbollah terrorists remain under arms.

For the life of me, I don't understand why Israeli civilians are not massing in the streets of Jerusalem demanding the immediate resignation of Olmert and his Cabinet. The Israeli army is returning from Lebanon with its tail between its legs.

How can you ask soldiers to kill and die for a simple objective that is later abandoned without explanation or reason?

Does Olmert not understand what his surrender means? It means he has given aid and comfort to Israel's enemies. He has handed Hezbollah its biggest victory since former Prime Minister Ehud Barak unilaterally withdrew from Lebanon, handing the southern part of the country to Iran's proxy army and positioning it to claim it had defeated the Jewish state.

He has also proved to Israel's other terrorist enemies – those in Hamas and the Palestinian Authority – that rocket attacks, assassinations and kidnappings are winning tactics against the Jewish state. Prepare to see more of them under the terms of this "cease-fire."

He has demonstrated for the entire world that Israel has lost the kind of resolve it had in previous military campaigns. When the going gets tough, today's Jews evidently will just sue for peace.

Hezbollah has won. That's the unimaginable bottom line after this conflict. The terrorists have won – not in the battlefield, mind you. But they won before the war ever began because weak-kneed, cowardly, morally unfit leaders in Jerusalem would never permit Israel to win.

With Hezbollah's victory, Iran and Syria have been emboldened as well. This is bad news not just for Israel, but for the entire world.

If you think I overstate the case, ask yourself this fundamental question: Is Israel more secure after abandoning its conflict in Lebanon or less secure?

You know the answer. Everyone knows the answer.

Israel may have one of the greatest military machines in the world. It may have an intelligence apparatus that is the envy of superpowers. It may even have right on its side.

But Israel is being led by men unworthy of its history, unworthy of its sacrifices, unworthy of its hard-fought victories of the past and unworthy of God's sovereign promises to bless the Jewish state forever.

It's clear the only enemy that could ever destroy Israel is the kind of internal moral rot we are witnessing today in Jerusalem. Israel has just one shot at surviving its terminal illness – cutting out the cancer that is the Olmert government.

[goldstategop]

Israel's condition is terminal - unless the Olmert government is removed from power. People who led Israel to the most devastating defeat its history are not equipped to ensure the country's continued survival. The pathetic turnout of Israelis at an anti-Olmert demonstration in Tel Aviv reveal few Israelis do get the extent of the danger the country is in. And by the time the rest of their countrymen do wake up, it may be too late. By then, if nothing is done, all that will remain of the late Jewish State is an Internet website.

(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo!)

[GeronL]

Israel needs someone who is not afraid to nuke Damascus and Tehran if that becomes necessary

[goldstategop]

I just don't see Israel's elites having the conviction to take on the mullahs in Iran when their definition of victory is to allow Hezbollah to hide its katyushas and rockets under its gallabiyahs - Arab robes. I really don't. Iran could have nuclear weapons today and Israel's current leadership would never order a preemptive attack to take them out. A country incapable of defeat a terrorist army in Lebanon is not a country that is capable of addressing the gravest existential threat confronting it in its history - the challenge coming from Teheran. Not with the people at its head who managed this War Of Capitulation.

(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo!)

[Bommer]

The Jews of Israel don't seem to care. The obvious choice in the last election was Bibi. Instead they elect a lawyer to defend them.

[beaversmom]

Saw Medved last night and he said he thinks Olmert will be gone in a few weeks. He said Netanyahu will be back.

[farlander]

Oh, I'm pretty sure that the folk in Israel will demand Olmert's head on a platter. And Netanyahu will deliver, I'm sure.

[Westlander]

Go Neutron!

[marc costanzo]

This is the Beginning of the End for the Jewish State !

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This last, ill-concieved and obviously pre-planned millitary action against Lebannon by Israeli military forces, is Zionist State's OPERATION BARBAROSA !

Like that ill-fated invasion of Russia 45 years ago, this could spell ultimate defeat for the Jewish State - -
they(Israel's Intelligence) obviously underestimated Hezballah's hold on Lebannon, the country, the society, its' state - -
underestimated Hezbollah's capabilities, like 13,000 Katusha rockets . . .

More Israeli citizens have been killed in the past 12 years of peace since the Oslo Peace Accords of 1994, than in the previous 20 yrs of wars and conflicts combined . .

The Zionist State will not be destroyed, not nuked - -
Israel will be bled to 'Death by a Thousand Cuts', none of which are fatal by themselves, but fatal long term ! !

[GeronL]

Neutronize all those arab countries is fine with me after they try something big. They certainly seem to be clueless at where the limits are.

[beyond the sea]

He said Netanyahu will be back.

I think I bought a nice couch from him back in Chicago.

[marc costanzo]

>>Likewise, history tells us of nations that never lost a battle in combat only to die because they lost their sense of purpose, their will to survive. <<

Do not forget that they also lost their sense of identity !

They allowed their countries to be flooded by foreign tribes until their sense of Nation Consciousness lived no more . .

After that, they fought their wars increasingly with the aid of foreign auxiliaries and conscripts(foreign immigrants that acquired citizenship thru service) - -
forces that were loyal primarily for pay, and a share of the loot(spoils of war) ~

When it came time to fight their fellow co-ethnics, they proved less than reliable ! !

(there are currently 27,000 immigrant non-citizen enlistees in the U.S. military)

[marc costanzo]

>>It is coming to the absurd point where a Democrat President in '08 would be better for national security.

Why?

Because the Dem could triangulate by securing our borders, profile Muslims, and take out Tehran. The MSM and the majority of the public would support these actions. It would re-align politics (for the Dems) in a way that Karl Rove could only dream of.
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Whoa !

We have a closet DemoCrat here !

The Democrats will never act against illegal immigration, they need those stooges, the Latino Vote, to stay in power .

While the Mass Media, especially in Nuke York City are the acolytes of The 'Crats, does not mean a Crat President will get a blank check to through illegal aliens(minorities) out of this country !

Libs like Ted Kennedy want third worlders to take over America !
That has been The 'Crat plan for the past 41 years !

[Thinkin' Gal]

It's not just former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon who is comatose. It seems the whole current Israeli government is brain dead. How else can one explain Israel's agreement to Lebanon cease-fire terms that amount to unconditional surrender?

Ping.

[nathanbedford]

Well Johnnie, after you have read this and reports out of Iraq of a situation rapidly deteriorating, do you still want to continue shoveling flies to win this war against 1.4 billion Muslims?

[peyton randolph]

We have a closet DemoCrat here !

Hardly. I've been voting GOP for 20 years. I'll vote Libertarian if there is no GOP candidate on the ballot. I'd sit home rather than vote Dem.

The Democrats will never act against illegal immigration, they need those stooges, the Latino Vote, to stay in power .

The Howard Deans wouldn't. The Hillary Clintons would. Remember Slick Willie's triangulation on welfare reform? The calculated risk was that blacks wouldn't leave the Dem plantation. Same risk would be taken with respect to hispanics.

It isn't about ideology for someone like Hillary Clinton. It is all about attaining power. The preferred method would be as a socialist. But she'd run as a Bible-thumping moderate with a hawkish defense policy if it garners her 270 electoral votes. I suspect the same could be said about Bayh of Indiana, Mark Warner of Virginia, and Osama Bama Ding Dong of Illinois.

Think it isn't possible? We're rapidly descending to a "only Nixon could go to China" moment...permitting a Dem pseudo-hawk to do with foreign policy what the Republicans have abdicated from doing.  

[LeoWindhorse]

Israeli elections coming soon!
Don't freak out just yet....
Bibi will be back and the punch will return.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

"It's not just former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon who is comatose. It seems the whole current Israeli government is brain dead."

This was wrong. Arik's condition should not be used to make political points.

[FreeReporting]

Don't hold your breath about Bibi.

[Cheburashka]

It is coming to the absurd point where a Democrat President in '08 would be better for national security.
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The fact you could make this statement means that nothing you say should ever be taken seriously. Ever.