Comments on: What prisoner swap?

By: benning

benning — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:24:25 +0000

Israelis continue to elect Socialists (Leftists) to run the governemnt. The Socialists (Leftists) continue to act as though the Islamists are rational and can be dealt with. ” … she’s become indescribably stupid.” is an apt description of what is going on in Isreal.

If Israelis won’t wake up to the foundational problems of their Leftist elected officials, things will continue to worsen. Olmert should have been bounced out of office years ago. That he wasn’t speaks volumes to me about Israeli electoral foolishness.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:25:09 +0000

Dead Jewish bodies have suddenly become an incredibly valuable commodity.

Certainly it is valuable to Olmert. The lives that will be killed by Palestinians in the future? Not so much to the Olmerts of the world.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:22:16 +0000

I was under the impression that Olmert was the Likud part’s chosen successor to Sharon. Sharon had gotten a majority government in Israel’s parliamentary system by combining with Likud or whatever party name they were calling it back then.

When Sharon died, the party MPs that the Israelis had elected now selected Olmert as the leader.

In Parliamentary systems, Book, the people don’t ever, ever, get to choose what leader they will have as PM.

And the British didn’t select Winston Churchill either. When they had a choice of Labour or Conservative, they chose Labour and thus it automatically kicked Churchill out of the PM slot.

By: Bookworm

Bookworm — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:39:58 +0000

It’s not the people I worry about, 1Lulu — it’s their leaders. If Olmert isn’t out of office soon, well, who knows what other acts of stupidity he’ll commit. But of course, he’s the leader Israelis elected. Either they know something about him and the situation that I don’t, or the long years of turmoil have ideological strife have impaired their ability to select a Winston Churchill for their times.

By: 1Lulu

1Lulu — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:58:18 +0000

I cannot even begin to imagine what Olmert was thinking. Throughout his leadership he has steadily strengthened the hand of Hezbollah and Israel’s enemies. The released butcher of the 4 year old and her father has been greeted as a hero in Lebanon and welcomed in a warm reception by the Lebanese president. It is truly a f#$#@d up society that greets cold blooded executioners of children as heroes.

Book, I get too depressed reading your hopeless predictions for Israel. Imagine if you were blogging before the 6 Day’s War or during the War of Independence- because things didn’t look too bright then either. Yes, Olmert is an idiot. I cannot even fathom what even remotely possible upside they were thinking could come out of this. This exchange is pure negative for Israel, except for this one glimmer. This act was so stupid that even Lefties in Israel see it as such. The reaction in Israel from all quarters has been negative. Hopefully this will help the population to wake up again.

Despite this stupid act, I really don’t see the Israeli people as ready to roll over and commit suicide yet.