The Fix That Olmert’s Regime Has Gotten Us Into

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Commentary;

This author can’t think of a more appropo expression of the state of affairs which Olmert and his protexia cronies have gotten into thanthis movie classic: Oliver Hardy’s classic exasperated berating of Stanley Laurel; “That’s another fine fix you’ve gotten us into!”

Dr. Aaron Lerner, IMRA Director writes that Israel’s democracy is able to yet escape the diplomatic corner into which the Olmert regime has placed Israel.

While this author is in agreement with Dr. Lerner as to the overwhelming majority of what he writes, on this issue there is disagreement. In order to elude the corner Israel is in requires an end not only to the current Olmert regime, but the dismantling of Israel’s total system and mores of governance, and re-forming and rebuilding that system in accordance with Jewish law, tradition, darchim and mores. Toppling the Olmert regime and bringing new elections will do nothing other than recycle the “old boys”, be they Olmert, Barak, Livni or even Bibi Netanyahu thus bringing about the ultimate continuation of the fine fix which Laurel got Hardy into.

Further, regardless of the degree to which a “sovereign Palestinian state (sic)” approaches President Bush’s vision, such a state can have no legitimacy on any part of Eretz Yisrael — Jewish land by divine legacy. For NO American president or secretary of state is the ultimate authority to which the Jew must obey. That sole authority rests in Shemayim; Hashem’s Divine Decrees. But NO Israeli governing leader or diplomat has the Jewish backbone to proclaim; Breish’t Borah Kelokim. MB

Replacing Olmert to Get Israel Out of the Corner He
Painted Us Into, by Dr. Aaron Lerner, Director (IMRA – Independent Media Review & Analysis)

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The bad news is the Prime Minster Ehud Olmert has managed, by his remarks and responses to event, to paint himself into an incredibly tight and dangerous corner.

The good news is that as a democracy the Jewish State has the ability to opt out of the corner without this leading to anything close to an
insurmountable crisis.

By presenting the creation of a Palestinian state as an existential need for Israel, Olmert has stripped himself of the ability to effectively insist on Israel many vital interests.

And his interlocutors know this.

After all, if a Palestinian state is seen as an existential need for the Olmert team, their security concerns – and certainly any interests that are beyond the scope of security (e.g. economic, historic/
national, etc.) are of secondary importance if addressing them means a stalemate over the Palestinian state.

Olmert’s team has also embraced the fantasy that foreign security forces coupled with elegantly drafted verbiage can overcome the fundamental problems that make the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state that even marginally approaches the Bush vision impossible for the foreseeable future.

The reality on the ground both in Gaza (and the Gaza-Sinai border), the West Bank, south Lebanon, etc. certainly provides the evidence to justify a radical change in Israeli policy.

A change that a different Israeli head of state, not encumbered by a record of embracing the lies that serve as the foundation of Olmert’s program, could effectively advocate and implement.