Falling asleep at the wheel
Falling asleep at the wheel
In a speech delivered a mere 6 months ago, at a dinner for the ultra-leftist Israel Policy Forum, our Acting Prime Minister had the following words to say:
We are tired of fighting, we are tired of being courageous, we are tired of winning, we are tired of defeating our enemies, we want that we will be able to live in an entirely different environment of relations with our enemies. We want them to be our friends, our partners, our good neighbors, and I believe that this is not impossible...
(For an analysis of the entire speech,
click here).
Is it any wonder that today, Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who has already expressed to the world that he is tired, is in the process of giving away both Jerusalem and Hebron while willfully ignoring the tremendous terror threat that continues to hover over the Jewish State of Israel?!?
I do not know how anyone in Israel can sleep at night knowing that the man leading the county has given up hope; a man who no longer believes in the absolute right of the Jewish People to a Jewish State in the Land of Israel; a man who has lost the will to fight and stand strong for our rights and our lives.
Ehud, if you're so tired, please do us all a favor and go home and allow someone who isn't tired of fighting; who isn't tired of being courageous; who isn't tired of winning and who isn't tired of defeating our enemies to take your place.
Hopefully, there is still someone left in Israel who fits that description.
Cross Posted at Israel Perspectives
Posted by Ze'ev Orenstein at January 17, 2006 03:38 PM
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josh
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How have we come to this? Defeat snatched from the jaws of victory. Just 2 years ago,Israelis were united in the fight against terror. The country had a renewed sense of purpose after the aimless "Oslo" years. What happened,and is there any fight left in the people of Israel? These are very very scary times. Not because our enemies seek our destruction. They always have. But the Jewish people seem to have lost their resolve. Where will real leadership come from? We need it very badly.
Posted by: josh on January 17, 2006 09:50 PM
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georg von mecklenburg
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Almost every Israeli leader has said the same things... they are tired of this and tired of that. That is why the Sinai was given away, and now Gaza. What's next??? Jerusalem? Tiberius? Tel Aviv. So what if the leadership is tired. That's what's at stake if you are the leader of a country. Apparently, the killing and maiming by the enemy means nothing for Israelis, except to retreat further into a darker hole.
Posted by: georg von mecklenburg on January 18, 2006 08:49 AM
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Ptah
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This is very sad and frightening.
Posted by: Ptah on January 18, 2006 12:22 PM
Falling asleep at the wheel
In a speech delivered a mere 6 months ago, at a dinner for the ultra-leftist Israel Policy Forum, our Acting Prime Minister had the following words to say:
(For an analysis of the entire speech, click here).
Is it any wonder that today, Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who has already expressed to the world that he is tired, is in the process of giving away both Jerusalem and Hebron while willfully ignoring the tremendous terror threat that continues to hover over the Jewish State of Israel?!?
I do not know how anyone in Israel can sleep at night knowing that the man leading the county has given up hope; a man who no longer believes in the absolute right of the Jewish People to a Jewish State in the Land of Israel; a man who has lost the will to fight and stand strong for our rights and our lives.
Ehud, if you're so tired, please do us all a favor and go home and allow someone who isn't tired of fighting; who isn't tired of being courageous; who isn't tired of winning and who isn't tired of defeating our enemies to take your place.
Hopefully, there is still someone left in Israel who fits that description.
Cross Posted at Israel Perspectives
Posted by Ze'ev Orenstein at January 17, 2006 03:38 PM