When you hit your knees tonight:
I’ll be blunt.
Ehud Olmert’s incompetence, malfeasance, corruption, has slotted Israel into a place where it cannot respond to its threats.
An involved Israel, interested in its future survival, will take any number of salient steps.
I am convinced that these steps will not, can not, be taken under the Quisling Olmert.
In my opinion, he is a traitor to the Israeli people, plain and simple.
BZ
My parents just traveled to Israel this past March for their 40th anniversary. We do indeed need to keep their leadership in our prayers!!
Isreal has survived far worst, as long as this guy leaves things would improve… Or not, see Tom Clancy’s EndWar. Then again, “You don’t mess with the Zohan” is better, lol.
Isaac is correct, however it’s best not to tempt fate. Because you survive a car wreck, doesn’t mean your next one wont kill you.
I believe Israel can take care of the “local” problems, it’s the COMBINED wills of the big 3 in the “hood” that worry me. Iran, Syria, Saudi. (While Saudi plays the “Uninvolved” card, it’s the motor that moves the ideological vehicle.
BZ, it seems that prayers have been answered.
“Israel’s Olmert to quit as PM after Sept. party vote”
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=690630
Olmert has sold Israel out but I believe there is a much bigger Protector waiting in the wings. We’ll see.
Israel is being painted into a corner, and our state dept., sadly, is helping out.
That nation is going to be in the fight of it’s life soon, I hope America is on the right side of that conflict when it comes.
After reading Michael Totten, I am starting to think that Israel’s best chance to CF the ME is to do something really radical: recognize an Islamic Country that supports it and the US.
That is Kosovo which now desperately needs to keep the binladenites out. I disagree with how we got here and vehemently, but now is the time to use this and get a THIRD Islamic nation on the road to full-throated democracy. The killers and terrorists are coming from autocratic regimes and dictatorships, and it is time to start dropping the dime on them and start to show that it is the sons of the rich and powerful causing the destruction, and the sure cure for that is democracy and liberty.
It is time for the dictators, tyrants and despots of the Middle East to know fear: fear from their people seeing that their religion does not dictate death to them and that those free of tyrants can and will oppose them. Israel under Olmert has weak guts and can barely stand, and the people of Israel need good, strong government able to reach out to free people because they are FREE and demonstrate once and for good and all that there is no natural antipathy between Islam and Judaism. Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo… what happens when people who practice Islam support liberty, freedom and democracy?
Lets find out. The alternative is lethal.
I will place my trust with Jefferson and Co. on that. The Last, Best Hope of Mankind.