Powerfully said.

Especially this graf:

But Olmert and Livini and their enablers continue to talk and talk and with each word and sentence they give away a small portion of Israel, of the Jewish people, of Jewish history, until one day we wake up and the only words left are the words of the Kaddish.

I liked what Michael Oren had to say:

Most uniquely, Israel confronts daily security dangers and long-term threats to its existence. Israelis can neither condone nor afford a prime minister who passes the buck to their army or shirks the onus of defense. The person who sends us into battle cannot escape responsibility for our fate.

" ... But Olmert and Livini and their enablers continue to talk and talk and with each word and sentence they give away a small portion of Israel, of the Jewish people, of Jewish history ... "

again,
as countless times before,
the problem is more with the liberal Jews than with anyone else

maybe if enough liberals wake up and make it a fashionable liberal Jewish cause to do whatever is necessary to defend Israel, the problems caused by the Israeli left would also diminish

in the link yesterday to Daniel Pearl's father, it is a sign he is waking up,

here's another one:

Newsweek actually published this one:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/105583

and here is a review of a book by a Harvard Department Chair, who is an outspoken secular Zionist, and calls Jewish liberals on their Jewish problem:

Jews and Power by Ruth R. Wisse

http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=6071

... but will Olmert, Livni, Peace Now, etc. ever read it ? ...

I've been following the "slow-motion suicide" posts...was reading a riotouosly stupid letter on Jpost.com from a Saudi woman, responding to a Caroline Glick article about Saudi women. The letter is just plain silly and full of lies..the kicker is, the woman talks about all her freedoms but doesn't want her name revealed! There's real bravery there.

More astonishing and insane to me is an ad...I don't know if it will show up or if there are rotating ads

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1201523795033&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

What it shows for me is an ad for "singlemuslim.com". "Find a Muslim marriage partner". I haven't looked lately..but I remember reading a note from someone who showed that a nice Muslim boy going to college here in Missouri, was looking for romance with a nice young Muslim woman, as long as she hated Jews and Israel as much as he did, among other qualifications.

I know it's ad money for the Jerusalem Post...I know Arabs live in Israel. But gosh, I just don't think I could find an ad for Jdate or similar services in the "Saudi Tattler" or whatever their newspaper is named!

The letter is worth a read just for laughs.

Maurice

or whatever their newspaper is named

I think it's called The Raghead Rag. Or maybe the Raging Raghead Rag. Or the Sandmonkey Seether.

It has been said that people get the government they deserve.

So why does the population of Israel allow these fools to stay in power? Are they really that blind Or do they feel they that if they stick their head in the sand long enough, the problem will go away? Apathy perhaps?

It boggles the mind.

Kishke:

Thanks so much. Liberals say that you talk to your enemies. I say you defeat them in battle.

Jack:

Oren's piece in the Wall Street Journal is excellent. But as I said, Olmert will never resign. His time in office and his supporters will be viewed in history as equal to Neville Chamberlain and his disgraceful, murderous policies of appeasement.

Exdem:

Thanks so much for the excellent links. Almost every day I get an e-mail from an ex-liberal who can no longer bear the disgraceful policies of the Democrats in America, nor the liberals in Israel. There is only on issue at hand: the war against jihad.

Maurice:

Thanks so much. Read the Saudi letter. My jaw is still on the floor. Orwellian thought via cyber space. And keep in mind that this woman is educated and literate, so much so that she reads the Jerusalem Post, reads Caroline Glick. Gee willikers, she's the Anne Coulter of Saudi society. Imagine what happens when you go lower down on the intellectual food-chain.

Head could easily explode from such imaginings.

PD:

Israel is, sadly, a parliamentary democracy, thus Israelis do not vote for one man from one party. The government is made up of a stew of coalitions glued together by self-interest, and old-boy networks. It's as corrupt and ineffectual as you can imagine.

Instead of telling us from the get go that the time, effort, manpower, and money spent on the Winograd hearings would be a complete waste and that we should just forgo it, we are no further ahead now then we were when this whole fiasco began.

What a waste!

Olmert and his buddies are squandering our heritage and there's not much we can do about it.

Except pray!

DoubleTapper:

The Winograd Report does point out grave weaknesses in the upper echelons of the IDF.

Generals who lead their troops by watching battles on plasma screens!

G-d help us.

Troops sent into battle without adequate maps, ammunition, water or medical supplies.

The political chain is corrupt. We know and almost accept this tragic fact.

But the IDF must be above this decadence. The IDF must be purged of cowardly and self-aggrandizing officers who lead from the rear. Officers whose only interest is in protecting their rank.

We must pray, true and then, when the time comes, double tap.