Hamas is publicly dictating the surrender terms for Israel. The terms are the ones that Israel has said all along cannot be complied with. Five’ll getcha ten Olmert complies.
“There must be a commitment by Israel, to end all its aggression against our people, assassinations, killings and raids, and lift the (Gaza) siege and reopen the crossings,” Hamas’ Gaza leader Ismail Haniyeh said in a speech.
A ceasefire deal, he said, should be “reciprocal, comprehensive and simultaneous” and apply both to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
These are the terms I mentioned last time. Hamas is insisting that Israel cease all activities that stop terror. No more police raids, no more closure on Gaza, no more attacks on “ticking bombs”—in other words, give Hamas and its ilk free rein to build up its arms and army against Israel, so that the next time there is a “cross-border raid” against Israel’s soldiers, it won’t stop at the deaths of a few and the kidnapping of one or two. It will continue into a war against Israel.
Way to go, Ehud Olmert. You’re fast becoming the Neville Chamberlain of Israel. Operations like this will become extinct if Hamas gets its way:
Members of the Special Police Unit killed a wanted Palestinian by the name of Salah Karkur in the village of Seyda outside Tulkarm on Wednesday morning. According to reports from Palestinian sources, Israeli troops called on Karkur to give himself up before opening fire.
Karkur, 28, was a member of the al-Quds Brigades, Islamic Jihad’s military wing.
The army said that the force was fired upon during the operation and that several explosive devices were also thrown at the officers. An AK-47 was found on the body of the dead Palestinian, the army added.
Will Olmert knuckle under to the demands to stop terrorists from killing Israelis?
I have little hope that he won’t.
“Way to go, Ehud Olmert. You’re fast becoming the Neville Chamberlain of Israel.”
Too true. Very sad, but true. Appeasement will only lead to more bloodshed. And it will be a more prolonged bloodshed.
Actually, that is an insult to Neville Chamberlain. Mr. Chamberlain honestly believed that what he was doing was in the best interests of a Britain that was unprepared for war. When Hitler invaded, he acknowledged his mistake and played a major part in the early part of the war before dieing of cancer in 1940.
He actually was the Prime Minister who led the declaration of war when Germany invaded Poland, served as Lord President of Churchhill’s war cabinet, and played a major role in setting up the Special Operations Executive
Thanks for that Sabba. Perhaps it is an insult to pair the two. I wasn’t aware of Mr Chamberlain’s heroics, only his failures.
Perhaps Olmert could learn from Chamberlain’s change of heart even more than from his folly.
Today there are fewer Neville Chamberlains than ever, and it’s really a pity, as at least Chamberlain repudiated appeasement when the enemy broke his promises.
Today, Palestinians not only break all the promises they make, but take a dump on the Geneva Convention in the process, and the modern-day appeasers not only ignore it, but when reminded of the precedent set by Neville Chamberlain, respond by trying to suppress freedom of speech and erase the history of how the Holocaust came to pass.
No, these people are not Chamberlains. They are worse; they are the Lord Haw-Haws of our civilization.