Ex-CIA Head: Gaza Pullback was “Worst,” Olmert’s Plan Even Worse
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James Woolsey, a former CIA Director, explains succinctly why Ehud Olmert’s second disengagement plan is a bad idea.
Woolsey sums up Olmert’s plan as follows: “The withdrawal of 50,000 to 100,000 Israeli settlers from 90% to 95% of the West Bank and major portions of Jerusalem,” together with a redeployment of the IDF near the security fence currently under construction.
He objects to the plan for the following reasons:
This approach was tried in Gaza and has failed utterly, “producing the worst set of results imaginable.”
Creating a West Bank that looks like today’s Gaza would be many times worse, including rockets and shelling into virtually all of Israel.
Not only Israel, but also moderate Jordan, would be threatened by a terrorist state.
Israeli concessions make the U.S. look weak, and suggest that the U.S. is fleeing from terrorism once again instead of fighting it.
Three Israeli attempts at accommodation with the Arabs – Oslo, Lebanon, and Gaza – have failed in the past 13 years because they were based on the premise that only Israeli concessions can displace Palestinian despair. “But it seems increasingly clear that the Palestinian cause is fueled by hatred and contempt.”
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So, why should I be surprised or even appalled that the people of Israel now have a prime minister who seems to be hell-bent on finishing the incompetent and incomplete job that other loser, Ehud Barak, started? I just cannot anymore support and promote the Olmert-led corrupt and stupid coalition now in power. I cannot justify a government that promotes national suicide, even if voted in by the people of Israel. They don’t need the terrorists and their suicide bombers to destroy them. The conduct of the corrupt and incompetent officials they voted in will do it for them. All this, they believe, is done under the guise of compromise. However, you do not compromise with enemies that want to kill you. They need to be destroyed. Period.
And Israel needs to remember that she once had guts and did not consider herself impotent or act like a banana republic. This would be the time to conduct a mass protest attended by millions – millions! – protesting the Chamberlain appeasement now in progress. It is ironic that while I was reading about the trip of Olmert to beg for 10 billion dollars to cleanse the Jewish areas of Judea and Samaria, the anti-Israel Los Angeles Times had a headline that said: “Gaza Gets Police Force of Militants”. Who gives George Bush and Olmert the right to give away a country? If Israel is really a democracy, don’t the people of Israel have the right to debate and then vote on something as crucial to their existence as this?