While I don’t advocate politicians handing out empty promises and I do think we have to live with the potential threats by our poor victimized neighbors… I think Olmert had simply loads of chutzpa.

I wonder when he overplays his hand and is sent home in boshet panim.

Yet Israel faces opprobrium if it takes defensive measures that are infinitely less severe than the things we stood ready to do to Russian cities for 40 years–and the things we actually *did* do to German and Japanese cities.

I have felt for some time that Israel’s colonels–since her generals have obviously have become as sclerotic and corrupt as her politicians–need to institute a military coup modeled after the Uruguayan response to the Tupumaro insurgency. Frankly, I think Israel’s survival has reached a critical crossroads now, and without the immediate removal of Olmert, the unthinkable may become a tragic reality–the defeat and dissolution of a sovereign nation through a national failure of will. Merely shooting him would not be enough, since he would be replaced by the equally weak Barak or Livni–Israelis need to rethink the entire process and then act swiftly and even brutally to implement the needed changes. The world accuses them of being Nazis already; what more do they have to lose–besides their homes, their citizenshop, their identity, and finally their lives? Kadima has done far more harm to them than Arafat’s PLO.