Comments on: Olmert must go

By: Sabba Hillel

Sabba Hillel — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:30:27 +0000

I suppose he actually means “The idiot has weapons pointed at us with his finger on the button. As long as he does, I will treat him like Menachem Begin treated Dhimmi Carter”.

By: Ed Hausman

Ed Hausman — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:45:35 +0000

Peace for peace, not land for peace. During the Mandate, the Golan was part of Palestine, Eretz Yisrael. If that’s not OK by Assad, the next foray, Israel can drop bigger bombs.

It’s all beginning to make sense. Why inflict the “Palestinians” on Jordan, which has maintained the peace with Israel (without having gotten land as a bribe to do so) when they can be transferred to Syria instead. Syria houses their leaders, let them take all the rest.

By the way, I recall “the other Ehud” said he respected Assad, too, when he was PM. Why do these guys think diplomacy requires fawning?

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 05:48:23 +0000

Please please tell me there is a punch line in that article…. Please it has to be a joke!

By: Long_Rifle

Long_Rifle — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 04:49:34 +0000

It doesn’t MATTER what Israel does during or before talks. The media will paint it as Israel’s fault when they ultimately fail.

The Golan Heights are a prime example. When Israel says no conditions, and Syria pulls the Heights, the MEDIA will claim that Israel is wrong because they shouldn’t have it in the first place.

Why is it that “right of conquest” is okay for ANY other nation but Israel?

This would be funny if it wasn’t true.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:56:29 +0000

If Syria refuses to negotiate with “no preconditions,” Olmert scores a point with World opinion, since it makes Syria look like the bad guy. Good Public Relations move, actually. Sad, but true…

Robert

By: chsw

chsw — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:53:31 +0000

“No preconditions” will be rejected by Syria because they have always insisted that the Golan Heights be returned before any peace talks start. They have often spoken about talks without preconditions and then pulled the Golan return precondition out at the penultimate moment.

If Olmert really wanted to pressure the Syrian Baathist regime, he should simply say that there is no credible partner available in Syria and that Israel will conduct itself accordingly.

chsw