Tel-Chai Nation

I was going to try and write about Amir Peretz's latest attempts to pretend that he's better than Ehud Olmert, but Israel Perspectives has done an even better job. From the ultra-leftist Haaretz, here's what Peretz said during a visit with Israeli residents of Judea and Samaria:

Labor Party Chairman Amir Peretz told settlers on Sunday that he would act for generous compensation and support by the state in exchange for voluntary evacuation of West Bank settlements...

"The time has come to treat settlers as human beings. They are the salt of the earth. We must build new towns and neighborhoods for them," Peretz said. "It's even worth giving the evacuees double the compensation, to prevent a confrontation and because it is an investment that pays itself off," he said.

Sigh. Poor Peretz. Like others of his now irrelevant Labor party, he too supports retreat, and little more. And let's not be fooled by his statement about building the people new neighborhoods and towns. With a record like his, it doesn't take much to figure out that he'd likely use it for his own greed-filled positions instead. And no, with all those other greedy guzzlers in the Labor party, some of whom are people with close connections to him when he was head of the Histadrut, I can't see him as willing to pay money to the Judean residents to compensate for the humiliation he'd most likely cause them as well.

So nope, I do not see Peretz as being any better than Olmert.

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