Olmert government must go
A stinging new critique from Caroline Glick of the Jerusalem Post, calls for the Olmert government to go, en masse. Glick correctly notes that the current Israeli leadership squandered the good will of the people, the Israeli military, and even the American government:
THE AMERICANS have lost faith in Israel as an ally. After he gave Israel every opportunity to win this war, even signaling clearly that Israel should feel free to go as far as Beirut if necessary, President Bush was convinced that Olmert simply didn’t want to fight. The Americans were shocked by Israel’s performance. They know that we can win when we set our mind to it and were flummoxed when presented with an Israeli leadership that refused to even try.
Whatever one may feel as to the specific charges leveled against the Olmert government — and Glick enumerates quite a few — the war effort viewed in total, has been largely a failure on military, diplomatic, and policy fronts. In such a situation, the government should be expected to resign. It is the nature of the democracy in Israel, and is the duty of the Knesset to bring about this action, through a vote of “no confidence”.
[H/T: LGF]