A summary of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's statement of surrender. "PM Olmert Plans to Release 250 Fatah Terrorists From Jail," by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz for the INN :
Addressing his remarks to the PA Arabs, Prime Minister Olmert said that Israel is just as sensitive to the issue of its kidnapped soldiers as the residents of the PA are to the issue of their relatives serving time in Israeli jails.Olmert compares a kidnapped soldier to jailed Jihadists. The only difference in Olmert's world is that the Jihadists are set free to terrorize, while the kidnapped waste away in the hell of Gaza.
Prime Minister Olmert then announced, "Out of sensitivity to the matter of the prisoners, I decided today to bring before the government of Israel a decision according to which we will release 250 prisoners, members of Fatah, without blood on their hands, and who will commit themselves to refrain from further involvement in terrorism. I do this because I understand the importance of negotiations with the Palestinian Authority."
Who is going to guarantee the commitment? Abbas? He just merged the murderous al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade into his own security force! And that force is about to increase by 250 members.
He added that the intended mass prisoner release had another purpose, as well: "It is important that every Palestinian knows that whoever is prepared to have peaceful and conciliatory relations with us will receive our hand outstretched in peace."
What every Palestinian knows now more than ever is that terror pays. I would paraphrase Olmert's statement as follows: "It is important that every Palestinian knows that as long as the terror continues, you will receive our arms outstretched in surrender."
In addition, Olmert promised to transfer withheld tax revenues to the PA, to make "meaningful" improvement in the freedom of movement of the Arab population in Judea and Samaria, and to renew commercial ties with that population.
More money for terror. More money to line the pockets of the corrupt Fatah leadership.
Israel will not cut basic supplies to Gaza, either, the Prime Minister avowed, saying, "We will not punish the Gaza population for the actions of the Hamas leaders."
Why punish the population who brought Hamas to power? Did the US support the German population during WWII? Israel supplies Gaza with water and electricity, while it hastily turns off service to Israelis who are suffering economic distress due to the effects of terror. Qassam-besieged Sderot still has not received the proper protection promised by the government so long ago. Residents of the north still do not have the adequate bomb shelters promised by the government so long ago.
What is important to the Olmert government is that Gazans are taken care of. But why? Israel disengaged. Let Egypt feed them. Let Egypt supply them with water and electricity.
According to Prime Minister Olmert, the new Abbas- and Fatah-led government of the PA "recognizes Israel's right to exist," accepts the "two states for two peoples" solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict, "opposes terrorism," and "includes no representatives of terrorist organizations."
Fatah's response? "Al Aqsa Brigades spokesperson urges Palestinians to support resistance," from Ma'an News Agency:
Gaza - Ma'an - Spokesman for Fatah-affiliated Al Aqsa Brigades, Abu Fuad, on Monday urged the Palestinian people to support the "choice of resistance".In a press statement made in Gaza he said "the Israeli policies will be frustrated on the rock of the steadfastness of the people, as before. We confirmed that we are putting the issue of the prisoners at the top of our priorities".
He urged the Palestinian leaders to move immediately to "expose the Israeli position and the barbaric way they are treating the Palestinian people." He also urged "the Arab League and the Islamic organizations to take a step forward, act in more responsible way and support the Palestinian people."
So much for Olmert's goodwill gestures.
According to "Olmert agrees to free Palestinians" in Al Jazeera, the 250 acts of treason committed by Olmert will result in…..nothing!
But the "goodwill" measure will not help increase Abbas's popularity across factional divides because Ehud Olmert said the prisoners had to be members of Abbas's Fatah faction.They also had to be "without blood on their hands" and willing to renounce terrorism.
The Arab media is already planting the seeds to negate the "goodwill gesture."
Olmert released 250 Jihadists and all he well get in return is a demand for more. And terror, of course. All the while Gilad Shalit still sits in Gaza.
In "MK Ahmed Tibi embraces Ehud Olmert's Sharm statements" in the Jerusalem Post, we find two noteworthy responses from Israel's right:
MK Zvi Hendel of NU\NRP said that "Olmert continues to gallop at breakneck speed towards the precipice of a destroyed path and the annihilation of Israel's might. If the prisoners who are to be released were imprisoned subsequent to the Oslo accords then what has changed? Hendel asked, and answered that "Then too we said that Fatah was peace-loving and that we should caress them and hug them, and yet they committed crimes against the citizens of Israel. Every minute that goes by with this man (Olmert) still in power intensifies the danger to Israel."MK Arye Eldad, another member of Hendel's party, said that "Irrespective of the practical failure of the Sharm summit for furthering peace in the Middle East, Olmert was forced into the Pavlovian response of releasing prisoners and rewarding terror."
At least some people get it. It's treason.
Crossposted from The American Israeli Patriot.
..I vote: it is treason....
Admiral Boorda was the Chief of Naval Operations under Clinton. He was quiet and polite during the short periods of time when we were in the same room. Addresses he gave to large audiences were well received. He drove a probably five year old Corvette.
Boorda was a Jew from Indiana and was from all accounts a good guy. He was impressive. He remains the only man to rise to CNO from the enlisted ranks. You can Google him.
David Hackworth, a schmuck who worked for Newsweek, didn’t like Boorda. Hackworth was a veins in the teeth type of army guy and Boorda was a little chubby. Hackworth questioned the validity of the ‘Valor’ identifier on the Admiral’s Navy Commendation Medal (a relatively minor medal for an Admiral). The identifier boiled down to a small brass ‘V’ on a green and white ribbon. If the medal was earned under fire, you get a ‘V’ on the ribbon. If there was no fire, no ‘V’.
Boorda’s sense of honor is something to be studied. The ‘V’ on the ribbon was probably questionable. When he was about to be interviewed by the press about the ‘V’, he walked out to his garden and shot himself. A normal guilt-ridden man would have put the gun in his mouth, but Boorda did not blow his brains out. He shot himself in the chest, reportedly in the location of the Navy Commendation Medal sits. He probably bled for a few minutes before losing consciousness.
There may be a parallel thought process between Boorda’s response to Hackworth and Olmert’s response to Islam. A lot of it may be based on the fact that these guys are so smart that they outthink themselves. The Bible says that two thirds of Jerusalem will be killed, and then the remaining third will destroy the invaders. I believe the Bible.
Why get all hot and bothered? It seems perfectly logical to me.
If Olmert is going to give them so many guns, certainly it makes sense that they need trained terrorists to use them!
Greetings:
The guy who should be released is the guy who killed the other Israeli Prime Minister.
Greetings:
At the risk of repeating myself:
This release lunacy sends me back (mentally) to my infantry days.
The POW calculus went something like this:
1) I don't ever want to fight someone twice;
2) POWs can be a source of information;
3) Capture, relocation and control of POWs present problems.
I'll do the math.
What a thoughtful gesture. So sensitive and Sweet. olmert should take down his pants, bend over, and grab his ankles, because any dolt knows he, as well as the Israel people are gonna get the palestinian shaft. Another case of snakes and suckers.
The Right of Return for the first 250, eh?
I have no words for this.
But the Tehillim, the Psalms, do.
Psalm 10: Why standest thou afar off, O God?. Psalm 12: 'Help, LORD, for the godly man ceaserth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men".
On further reflection...why not spread abroad, among the Muslims, the idea that each of these 250 prisoners has been 'tagged' such that their movements subsequent to release will be beeping nicely across a digital map on some sinister Shin Bet or Mossad computer screen?...I doubt, myself, that it would be possible. If it were, I doubt the Israeli Jews would pursue such a 'tag, release and track' scheme as practised by biologists with sea turtles...they are far too high-minded. But since the Muslims already believe so much bizarre s**t about the Jews, let them believe this one and go nuts wondering whether, if they let these ex-prisoners in on any scheme, that scheme may be betrayed...
"Every minute that goes by with this man (Olmert) still in power intensifies the danger to Israel."
This is perfect and should be imprinted on thousands of t-shirts and bumper stickers to be paraded around Israel.
It's really amazing that he can't figure out the stupidity of negotiating with terrorists.
When will JW/DW choose the next "Dhimmi of the Year" because Olmert should be the winner by a landslide. Dhimmis like Jimmy Carter are only idiots with no real power while arch-dhimmis like Olmert are a real and present danger.
Im shocked that Olmert is still alive let alone still in power.
"Greetings:
The guy who should be released is the guy who killed the other Israeli Prime Minister.
Posted by: 11B40"
....yeah, they could give him some Israeli supplied money, give him some Israeli supplied weapons and ammunition, then tell him , "oh look, the new guy is over there!...he is a jew!"
....pat him on the back and send him merrily on his way back to Israel...he is now properly equipped with a lot of good intentioned (although insanely furnished) Israeli aid....
Now I see how it is here when one idiot can send a whole wrong message about their country.!
Well, actually a bunch of idiots! I did not have GWB in mind either!
To Olmert, I know if it where him sitting beneath the earth he would wonder why me? why no one saves me? peon..
Send 250 heads, with the bodies to follow.