An encouraging sign, from the International Herald Tribune’s Roger Cohen, that the Jewish state is dealing itself out of a viable future:
Imagine Ehud Olmert, the outgoing Israeli prime minister, saying this to Barack Obama:
“The United States has been wrong to write Israel a blank check every year; wrong to turn a blind eye to the settlements in the West Bank; wrong not to be more explicit about the need to divide Jerusalem; wrong to equip us with weaponry so sophisticated we now believe military might is the answer to all our problems; and wrong in not helping us reach out to Syria. Your prospective secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, said during the campaign that ‘The United States stands with Israel, now and forever.’ Well, that’s not good enough. You need to stand against us sometimes so we can avoid the curse of eternal militarism.”
there is nothing new in this..
as anyone who knows israel would already know – we constantly soul search.. all the time..
yes many of us are glad that olmert has been a bit more direct in the last moments of his term but this is not on behalf of anyone but himself.. many of us have been asking these questions for a very long time..
http://emspeace.blogspot.com/2008/11/who-is-this-guy.html