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To: LindyBill who wrote (176335)	8/12/2006 9:15:06 PM
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Israel's Jimmy Carter Saturday, August 12, 2006 Posted by Hugh Hewitt \| 4:53 AM (DEAN BARNETT HERE) From Ha’aretz columnist Ari Shavit: Ehud Olmert may decide to accept the French proposal for a cease-fire and unconditional surrender to Hezbollah. That is his privilege. Olmert is a prime minister whom journalists invented, journalists protected, and whose rule journalists preserved. Now the journalists are saying run away. That's legitimate. Unwise, but legitimate. However, one thing should be clear: If Olmert runs away now from the war he initiated, he will not be able to remain prime minister for even one more day. Chutzpah has its limits. You cannot lead an entire nation to war promising victory, produce humiliating defeat and remain in power. You cannot bury 120 Israelis in cemeteries, keep a million Israelis in shelters for a month, wear down deterrent power, bring the next war very close, and then say - oops, I made a mistake. That was not the intention. Pass me a cigar, please. There is no mistake Ehud Olmert did not make this past month. Be sure to check out the comments to Shavit's column. Ha’aretz isn’t exactly a right-wing warmongering rag, and yet it seems the universal sentiment that Olmert must go. Hopefully Olmert’s cabinet will decline to hold the umbrella for him as he announces “Peace in our time” on Sunday and the battle can then be left to those more fit to carry it on. Also from Ha’aretz comes this revealing quote: On Monday night, after visiting the Northern Command, Olmert was convinced that the war must be stopped. He did not like the operational plans he was shown, and was not thrilled with the army's performance. For three weeks, he has been hearing daily that tomorrow the IDF will gain control of Bint Jbail and the town is still swarming with lethal Hezbollah fighters. He did not trust the army to stop the rocket fire even in a prolonged operation. Since then, Olmert has mobilized a coalition to release him from the grand military operation, which, according to IDF estimates, would involve hundreds of fatalities. To think that Olmert now sits in the chair occupied by Ariel Sharon mere months ago is to experience nausea of the highest order.