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2006-08-08 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Olmert to US Jews: War with Hizbullah existential

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Posted by Fred 2006-08-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "For the first time since the 1960s, Israel has an enemy whose goal is to eliminate our existence."

Ummmm, maybe I'm missing some nuance, but what about the PLO and Hamas?

Posted by xbalanke 2006-08-08 00:21|| 2006-08-08 00:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Olmert is so bad. The worst they have ever had. Lefty Kerry-Clinton type in over his head.

Posted by SamAdamsky 2006-08-08 01:00|| 2006-08-08 01:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Sadly, there are those in the Jewish community here who need it bluntly said. But supposedly the community has not been so united on Israel's side since 1973 (the Yom Kippur War).

I have a feeling Bibi Netanyahu is going to win the next election. The progression needed to happen -- the Intifadas demonstrated conclusively the falsity of the pacifists' fond hope that it would all go away if only Israel would do as the world prescribed; Olmert's Kadimah showed there is no Third Way without Sharon's warlike hand at the helm; only Bibi's way remanins.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-08-08 09:00|| 2006-08-08 09:00|| Front Page Top

#4 Bibi is cut from the same clothe as Olmert. Bibi signed the Oslo Accord. That Clinton filth Arafat fiasco.

Posted by SamAdamsky 2006-08-08 11:43|| 2006-08-08 11:43|| Front Page Top

#5 IIUC, Olmert has said that he didnt mobilize earlier cause Halutz didnt ask for it.

Kinda what Rummy said about more troops for Iraq. Ya know, something about no plan surviving contact with the enemy, the inherent uncertainty of war, all that. Odd that the folks who excuse Rummys 3 years of mistakes, are pouncing on Olmerts handling of the war, when we have so little real info about who ordered what, or even whats really happened on the ground in Lebanon.

As for the int. politics, ANY Israeli govt is going to have to pursue politics and diplomacy. Even Bibi. Bibi signed the Wye Accords. Not because of the cloth he is cut from, but because thats the strategic reality Israel faces.

Posted by liberalhawk 2006-08-08 13:38|| 2006-08-08 13:38|| Front Page Top

#6 Why don't you list Rummy's 3 years worth of mistakes, Ldove ? I need a laugh.

Posted by wxjames 2006-08-08 16:19|| 2006-08-08 16:19|| Front Page Top

#7 In 1998, then Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu appointed Sharon as Foreign Minister.

Phony "right-wingers" Ariel Sharon and Binyamin Netanyahu have been busy for years surrendering Israel to the PLO Arab Muslim terrorists - In 1998, as then Prime Minister Netanyahu's foreign minister, Sharon assisted him and the Jew-hating Traitor-in-Chief Bill Clinton in crafting the agreement to surrender 13% of Judea and Samaria to the PLO Muslim Nazi terrorists.
Netanyahu and Sharon then went together to the infamous 1998 Wye Plantation summit, where they negotiated with the Arab Hitler Yasser Arafat. Under the supervision of the Jew-hater Bill Clinton, Netanyahu and Sharon agreed to surrender another 13% of Judea and Samaria to the PLO Nazi terrorists.

I hope they do a little better than Bibi. He speaks well.

Posted by SamAdamsky 2006-08-08 23:18|| 2006-08-08 23:18|| Front Page Top

#8 It doesn't sound like you're hanging around healthy websites, Mr. Adamsky. I hope you showered before you came back here.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-08-08 23:45|| 2006-08-08 23:45|| Front Page Top

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