Tel-Chai Nation: Making divisive statements in wartime only ruins credibility

Showing that he's still the leftist he's been for some time now, Ehud Olmert made defeatist statements right when Israel is in the middle of a war, and hasn't even yet rescued the kidnapped soliders:

In a move that sparked anger and sharp criticism, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Wednesday announced his intentions to advance his realignment plan.

The plan in essence is another disengagement, the planned destruction of most of the remaining Jewish communities located throughout Judea and Samaria.

In an interview with the Associated Press, speaking in English, Prime Minister Olmert explained he plans to move ahead with his plan; a plan that he insists will create stability in the region by defining new borders. Such a move he explained will be testimony to the defeat of terrorism, and create the atmosphere required to permit Israel to disengage from the Palestinian Authority (PA).

Olmert insisted that the war with Hizbullah has nothing to do with his plan, stating his planned ‘realignment’ must move forward as he promised it would prior to being elected.

The plan calls for dismantling most of the communities throughout Judea and Samaria, to be replaced by a number of settlement blocs.

Olmert admits “it will not be easy,” adding he was elected as prime minister to act, not to sit idle. He added the implementation of the plan is also essential “towards assisting the Palestinians to achieve their aspirations for a state” living side-by-side with Israel.

Once again, we have a case of someone parroting leftist slogans of yore, and even advocating segragation, exactly what's harmed Europe and even the US. If you advocate segragation, all you're doing is further encouraging the Arabs/Muslims to refuse to integrate.

Olmert is also obscuring the rocket attacks on Sderot and any that could come against other parts of Israel, early or late, if he were to withdraw from Judea/Samaria as well.

Besides some of the Israeli MKs mentioned in the latter part of the article, Olmert has also gotten criticism already even from the Weekly Standard's Fred Barnes on FOX News, who's rightfully baffled. This shows that Olmert is not fit to lead the country, and should be shown the door as soon as possible.

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olmert forgets that he leads a party that received less than one-quarter of the votes in Israel's last elections, and holds less than one-fourth of the seats in the Knesset [29 out of 120]. Never before has a prime minister belonged to a party with such a small share of the seats in the Knesset. So he was not elected to do anything, except preside over a government coalition made up of several small parties which did not share his gruesome vision. He does not have to fulfill the promise of retreat because it was not approved by a majority [less than 1/4 is not a majority]. Now, olmert's arrogant remarks --more appropriate to a stuffed bird than a prime minister-- were extremely divisive. For making them, he ought to be thrown out of the prime minister's job right now. Maybe we should have an emergency government with Amir Peretz and Binyamin Netanyahu. Peretz has done much better as defense minister than his critics expected, whereas olmert has done what I and other critics did expect from him. He is as bad as we had feared he would be.

Posted by Eliyahu m'Tsiyon | 8/03/2006 09:58:00 AM