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Sunday, 13 Aug 2006
That seems to be the sentiment on Israeli blogs . The reason? He fights when he should have reasoned and reasons when he should fight, not to mention the strategy for winning this war for the israelis has been very very stupid, and lead only to lebanese and israeli casualties, without really affecting Hezbollah that much. It really makes sense when you think about it.
The question becomes, if not Olmert then who? The Israeli political scene all sucks. Peres? Old and ineffectual. Paretz? No longer a dove, not really a hawk, and screwed this one royally. Bibi? Nigga Please. He might be a tad popular with Israelis right now, with his "I told you so about Hezbollah" campaign, but he really really sucks, and the israelis know this. So, who would it be? Who would it be?
Well, how about Livni?
I like her. She is cute, She is smart, and Olmert dislikes her, which gives her total "Not retarded" points right about now. Hell, it seems like she was the only one who took sane and logical measures those past few weeks:
Livni objected to continuing with the military
operation, which, she believes, had consummated itself in the first two
days. She voted against bombarding Hezbollah headquarters in the Dahiya
neighborhood in Beirut for fear of escalation. Since then, she has
supported the decisions, but kept a low profile. She did not run from
one television studio to another to justify the war and muster support
for ground operations. She sought a diplomatic solution. She suggested
starting a political process at the same time as the military one, and
sending an international force to South Lebanon. Olmert was not keen at
first, but ultimately clutched at her suggestions like a life belt to
get out of the military entanglement.
Interesting, no?
Plus, she is a woman. Israel does really well under female leadership. It did well under Golda, and ever since Golda was no longer in power it has been acting really stupid. Maybe what Israel needs is another female leader.
For all of those reasons, this blog supports Livni for PM of Israel. I am not isreali, and I can't really affect things either way, but seriously, can you think of someone better or smarter at this point from both the israeli or arab perspective?
August 13th, 2006 at 9:53 am
YES. Livni is awesome. Smart, an excellent diplomat, takes the initiative (which is why Olmert hates her now) and clear-sighted. I would vote for Livni in a heartbeat. In fact, I’m going to start a campaign call on my blog: Livni for PM!!
August 13th, 2006 at 9:58 am
I like her too!
August 13th, 2006 at 11:02 am
Halutz for PM and Gantz for Chief of Staff. In the up-and-coming war with Iran and Syria, we’ll need good military leaders.
August 13th, 2006 at 11:08 am
“I like her. She is cute, She is smart”
Cute?????? Dude she’s married with 2 kids.
I guess you like MILFs then huh? LOL
Me support her too. Diplomacy is always a better option.
August 13th, 2006 at 11:16 am
Oh ya and in my humble opinion… Israel you lost!
http://sudanesethinker.blogspot.com/2006/08/israel-you-lost.html
August 13th, 2006 at 12:15 pm
http://israelpolitique.over-blog.com/
a nice looking woman, far from golda Meir
August 13th, 2006 at 12:46 pm
She is eminently capable and she is everything that Olmert isn’t. She’ll have my vote for sure.
August 13th, 2006 at 1:03 pm
And in the meanwhile, Israeli hospitals treat a wounded Hizballah terrorist. Our humanity is our doom: two friends of mine have died in Lebanon over the weekend because IDF is too fucking humane.
This is absolutely insane.
August 13th, 2006 at 1:08 pm
this is the first round of the israel/iran war
this is not bean bag.
August 13th, 2006 at 1:20 pm
Yochanan:
I agree with you. This is only round one.
I also disagree that a diplomatic solution was ever or is ever possible with the Hizby bastards. I am sorry, but they hold rallies calling for death to all Jews, death to Israel, and death to America. They have a sick media which is shockingly antisemitic. They aim for civilians. In short, they are terrorists.
Once you negotiate with a terrorist, it shows them that terror as a strategy is the answer. Sorry, nuh uh. That only will cause more terror.
Livni was wrong.
But at the same time, Olmert is a horrible PM and he is wrong as well. He has and had no real solution for winning the war, and is ineffectual and pathetic.
What Israel needs is a strong leader who shows the world that it cannot be messed with, but also understands warfare, and knows how to actually conduct a war. The leader also has to know how to smile for the cameras and be able to conduct a good Israel public relations campaign. This leader must be sharp, quick witted, and humane when humanity is called for. The leader must be able to wield a carrot and a stick when necessary.
Bibi is strong rhetorically, but I am not convinced he is the best man for actually leading troops into battle. He seems to be all rhetoric. It’s not like he did a good job when he was PM. He also was beset by various corruption scandals. The right man (or woman) for the job is someone who is not on the national political scene at the moment. I don’t know who the right person will be. All of them suck.
But it is clear that Livni is the WRONG person for the job. Diplomacy was NOT the answer at the point in time when Livni wanted diplomacy. It is only the answer when Israel approaches diplomacy from a point of strength, and I am not convinced they were in that position two days into the fight.
(that said, as I said, this war has been incompetently fought overall, due to Olmert)
August 13th, 2006 at 1:21 pm
Okay, I should edit. Diplomacy may work with terrorists, but only after coming at it from an extreme position of strength. Such was not the case two days into the fight.
August 13th, 2006 at 1:31 pm
Diplomacy works only with terrorists’ corpses. Only a warrior leader can save Israel now - Halutz is the most likely choice at the moment.
August 13th, 2006 at 1:34 pm
Racccoon:
Well said. I am glad that there is even someone out there! I will look into Halutz.
P.S.: I missed you, man!
August 13th, 2006 at 1:56 pm
Red Tulip –no, Livni wasn’t wrong. She suggested trying diplomacy first and that would last for only a period of days, arguing that at least if the diplomacy did not work our army would be better prepared to go in and that it should be an immediate combination of ground and air forces. Olmert did not listen to her. Once we went in she told Olmert fine we’re in and so now we need to be in very strong and we need to actually do something but Olmert did the frantic squirrel in the street routine putting troops in and then just hours later pulling them back out and then putting them back in and pulling them out again. We’ve all been sitting here saying , yo dude what are you doing? Olmert made no sense while Livni made perfect sense.
August 13th, 2006 at 2:04 pm
Oh, and for what it is worth, Livni was not only an officer in the IDF she was also in the Mossad. And critically, Livni excels at explaining our positions to the rest of the world –they like her, she is straight forward but not in a way that they take as arrogant or rude (which is a major problem with many of our other leaders –you can’t talk to the rest of the world in the same way that you talk to other Israelis because there is a major cultural difference). This is hugely important.
August 13th, 2006 at 2:09 pm
Left a response for you on your site Drima. No, this was not a loss for Israel.
It was a loss for all civilians. Lebanon lost as it never asserted authority over its territory and paid a price for it.
The message seems to be lost on lots of arabs as well. Lebanon was not hit hard. It could have been, but it wasn’t. This was due in large part to incompetent Israeli political leadership. This will be sorted out soon. Assume Olmert will be gone, and a strong leader will replace them.
Here is my prediction. Hezb will be emboldened by what they term a “victory”, and most of the rest of the world terms a significant setback for their host country. Hezb will foolishly, as if it is capable of anything else, attack Israel again. With the new UNIFIL sitting there watching.
What do you think Israel’s response is going to be? Hezb played with fire and its host got burned. It is being warned against playing with fire again, and it is too stupid to listen. Its host, if it is smart, will separate hezb from their fire makers. However, these are arabs, and as Abba Eban pointed out, they never miss an opportunity, to miss an opportunity.
And to point this out again, Hezb and Hamas have pretty much eliminated land-for-peace, as they have demonstrated how completely flawed this is as a concept. Arabs need to think very carefully about what this means for a nascent gazastan, as “palestine” as a new arab country is now effectively stillborn due entirely to the actions of the arabs. Kinda sucks, doesn’t it?
August 13th, 2006 at 2:19 pm
Yael:
Okay, that makes sense. At this point, almost anyone would be better than Olmert, anyway. He is awful.
August 13th, 2006 at 2:49 pm
Halutz is the current Chief of Staff. He’s a combat pilot, highly intelligent, decisive, knows how to kick ass and take names. His problem is arrogance, as it is with all pilots.
The rising star of IDF is Gantz, though - a tough cookie, dedicated, ruthless, efficient, cunning. He was my commander in Lebanon, and one of his bodyguards described told me about him that “he is a fearless psychopath. This guy has scars everywhere, including on his dick”. The man is a warrior to the bone. His problem is a tendency to overlook corruption in his underlings - as is with all warriors.
This couple will actually win wars (and win big) if only the government will let them. I will check up on Livni - nobody I know knows her personally, so she’s a bit of an unknown.
August 13th, 2006 at 2:56 pm
Go read treppenwitz y’all.
On another note: The only possible good that could come of this is that once the international forces get in there and Hezbrainless starts killing them ….. the world will be one step closer to decalring all out war on Islam. Islam is a death-cult the world cannot afford.
August 13th, 2006 at 2:57 pm
God, just not Bibi. No-one in the Middle East needs that level of paranoia. Things are bad enough as it is …
August 13th, 2006 at 3:21 pm
And yes, Bibi is a walking, talking disaster. I still can’t believe he has been let back into politics. The man can and should only be used as a speaker - he is a very gifted orator. Other than that, he has no redeeming qualities.
August 13th, 2006 at 3:26 pm
I’m with Livni. But “Israel ddi well under Golda”? Excuse me? Since when is rejecting Saddat’s peace offers, knowingly choosing war, refusing to negotiate, giving us the worse wartime leadership ever, and screwing the social-economic situation count as “doing well”? Good riddance to the old cow, who gave hypocricy a bad name!
August 13th, 2006 at 3:32 pm
Racoon, as I repeatedly say:Listen to Nitsche on this matter-”Those who fight monsters should take care that they never become one. For when you stand and look long into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you.”.Should we throw our humanism aside and become the monsters that they are we would lose, maybe not in the military sense, but we would lose because we would become as the enemy we despise and this will be our doom.Should that ever happen I pity anybody caught in the middle, for the dead would be counted in the hundreds of thousands at the least(think saturation bombing of Gaza).
Halutz can not become PM for several years, at the very least he’ll have to wait untill the end of his stint as chief of staff, and I *think* he has to wait a year or so before going into politics after retiring according to the law.Should he try a military coup a large part of the soldiery will rebel, not that he will try that- his stated view is that the military can recommend and try to convince the goverment about a certain course of action after giving the options, but once the goverment decided, the military goes and performs the decision to the best of its ability.
PS.For me “psychopath” isn’t a compliment.It’s a slur- psychopaths are terribly violent and really like hurting other people, nobody that likes shooting and harming human beings should be put at the of any army.
August 13th, 2006 at 3:51 pm
Anton, my werewolf friend… if humanism will get me killed but barbarism will let me live, I choose the latter. How well do you think the Allies would have done in WW2 if they had not fought like rabid beasts?
Because of the godsdamn humanism, the casualties from this war will eventually be counted by the hundreds of millions; the enemy is not constrained by humanism, mercy, compassion or any other notion that we consider civilized.
And the Israeli polity has been rotting in their padded chairs long enough. If the laws could be bent for Bibi, they can be bent for Halutz; we might need to do so in order to survive.
And a warrior must be a psychopath - no sane man can do what is needed to win a war. In combat, you let go of your inhibitions and you ignore your civilized upbringing - or you die and let your friends die.
August 13th, 2006 at 4:17 pm
Raccoon,a warrior doesn’t have to be a psychopath in order to survive, he has to be willing to kill other people- a *big* difference, as psychopathy is an inborn condition, it is the condition of viewing al other humans as “objects” rather then “people”(it sometimes can be induced by social enviroment, in which case it is called “sociopathy”).And I’ll tell you this- the man who knows war is terrible and thinks on both sides(his and the other) as people will think a bit harder before starting it, which means there is less chance of him doing it without good reasons.
A man who abhors the weapon he is using but knows he has to use it will generally use it more wisely then a man who glories in the destruction he causes.And when the “weapon” is a whole army I’d rather see it used wisely and with restraint when possible and not undiscriminately and without care, than you very much.
August 13th, 2006 at 4:28 pm
Drima,
Atlast you said something that I could agree with, but not for the same reasons that you came up with, YES the Hezbollah has won a war! Atleast, it could stick to its claims of inflicting maximum casualties on the Israeli’s and in return the Israeli’s at a maximum could destroy only a fraction of the terrorist infrastructure, what with being burdened with Political Correctness and not shooting Innocent Civilians( read family of Hezbollah).
However, if my understanding is anything to go by, the Hezbollah will overreach themselves and go on to grab defeat from the jaws of victory.
That is something that the Arabs have done time and again, for the past half a century in all its engagements with Israel.
The tentative ceasefire will never take effect and the U.N.( I just can imagine Annan with an egg on his face) having divested all its diplomatic capital in a lousy plan will try and wash its hands off the entire matter, while making all the right noises about the necessity of a ceasefire. With the Iran Nuclear Issue coming back to haunt Ahmedinejad he will ask his loyal buddy Nassrallah to do whatever it takes to shift the world’s focus and that self declared “Sheikh” will go out of his way to oblige, after all its not as if his ass was on the line of fire, the war will look much better when he views it from his safehouse in Damascus.
Following a series of altercations all semblance of a ceasefire will vanish and not even the French would feel like sending their troops to be returned all wrapped up, after all its not France’s war! Like wise for all countries who have tentatively agreed to send their troops to man the border. And what manning they are gonna do! The best they can do is watch the fire works as Lebanon will see perhaps for the first time in it’s engagements with Israel what a massacre really looks like.
Such dour predictions!!! But what can be done! The fact has been staring at anybody who would be willing to even cast a weary glance and , it sure is gonna be bloody!
My pick for the Israeli PM, for Olmert its the end of the road. After all, a Sharon under “Suspended Animation” could get him the post, but when it comes to saving your own ass, I guess you have to be the one who stands up and be counted.So wait till we see him a few months from now, on his lecture tour of U S of A about (well nothing really ! come on! Olmerts no Bibi),well he can semi-retire to his moonbat daughters Shangri-La in ‘Gay Paree’
Peretz, again his loyal companions at Histadrut may get him re-elected, after all there is no man like our man(no matter that ‘our man’ happens to be a half-wit) amongst the big boys. But another plum post in another dispensation ruling Israel. Forget it! That man is not fit to be a waiter in a down market restaurant, much less a defense minister. Maybe he will end up as a minister to keep his supporters happy, Tourismn( Nah! The man hardly understands Hebrew and English is out of the question) Transportation( Maybe but what would happen if the unions go on strike. Who would the minister side with; after all he is ‘our man’ with the big boys) Ah…. there it is he will probably end up as a minister without portfolio( that way he can re-learn the alphabet and make himself useful)
Livni, unfortunately for her she is also knee deep in this and like all who have waddled in the muck, she also gets to have a fair share of blame. And yes! She was also responsible for the initial screw-up and also contributed to the indecisiveness that doomed this campaign since inception. Her future, however seems to be bright, she would live to fight another day, maybe, but not in the next government and not hopefully, for a long…….long………time.
And Kadima, that brain-child of Ariel Sharon has become like tit’s mentor- Brain Dead! But what of the politicians who jumped the sinking ship of Likud? Oh they will surely find a way to kiss and make up with their old mates, the only problem is whether the people would immediately associate anybody even remotely connected with the Kadima as a bad egg? Only time will tell.
So much for the Israeli’s but what about the other side?
Nassrallah reminds me of the’ Lady from Niger who liked to ride on the tiger’. The only question worth asking is when will the Israeli’s consider himself to be a target worth knocking off inside hostile territory. So atleast he gets to have a prompt meeting with Allah. So our self declared “Sheikh” will end up on countless Shia walls across the world to be deified.
The young Assad will soon realise that he is a little too small to fit into his father’s shoes. Being a dictator of a totalitarian regime is one thing, but running a war with the coffers running dry is an entirely different matter altogether. Shia factions inside Syria will ask for a larger share of the pie that they have so far been denied, and that will ensure the beginning of the end of the Ba’athists. As for’ bumbling Basshar’ the Ba’athists will decapitate him, if the Shia’s won’t.
Ahmedinejad, poor little incompetent bastard, his misadventure in Lebanon will cost him a tad more that he expected, Big Brother America will see to it that Iran is stripped of it’s pilfered nuclear paraphrenalia. And then, two years down the line, the ‘betrayed’ but wisened people of the country will relegate him to history. He is perhaps the best candidate among the lot to write a book, I humbly present a title for his book ex-gratis- The Idiot’s Guide to Fuck Up a War( and lose Nuclear Reactors in Return).
August 13th, 2006 at 4:33 pm
The raccoon,
Pretty confident words and posts from someone who was telling me I was so wrong there will be a ground invasion to south Lebanon on the first week of the war. ANd turned out to be wrong on almost all accounts.
> Israeli hospitals treat a wounded Hizballah terrorist.
What is that supposed to mean or imply ? I heard it form the IDF spokesman that they found evidence when they raided that hospital that the israeli prisoners had been treated there earlier … so what ?!
I know … back to the same argument with you … when the israelis do it it is because they are good people with great intentions. When the enemy does the exact same thing, you all know better, the same act makes them bad and rutheless terrorists.
Be it treating the prisoners, killing civilians or having ammunition next to civilians.
> we might need to do so in order to survive.
Oh please, cut the cr*p and the whining. You might have convinced yourselves that your survival is at stake, you escalated all the way and Hizbollah did the best of their best and killed some 80 of your soldiers and 40 of your civlians, survival my ass.
Road accidents are a bigger threat to your survival than hizballah is.
TAC
August 13th, 2006 at 4:57 pm
TAC - bottom to top:
It is a war of survival. Hizballah is, of course, not a threat by itself; but its masters (Syria and Iran) are. Actually, HA is a threat mostly to Lebanon, at this point.
Failure to destroy Hizballah will enbolden various other Jihadists; this is a very real threat, no only to Israel but to any other secular democracy out there.
About moral equivalence: oh, do come on. HA targets civilians on purpose; human shields are their stardard tactic; Israel saves enemies which it doesn’t have to save while HA treats its prisoners only because they are needed as bargaining chips (worth more alive than dead).
About whatever it is that I have said at the beginning of the war - uhm. Are you sure? I am pretty certain that I wasn’t commenting on blogs by then.
Either way, it doesn’t matter. This is all words… and words will not help here.
August 13th, 2006 at 5:02 pm
Anton -
The army is a weapon. It has to be ruthless, it has to be hard; and it follows orders. The orders are what determines how the army acts. And part of IDFs orders are very stringent and enforced notions of purity of arms and suchlike.
And please note that when I said “psychopath” I did not mean to imply that the man is foaming at the mouth and biting at bars. It’s a sort of a colorful colloquialism, used first by Gantz’s bodyguard and then myself. But hey, you probably know this, don’t you? So why bother nitpicking on it?
Demosthenes - from your mouth to the Gods.
August 13th, 2006 at 5:56 pm
The thing is that the army should be indeed hard as needed, but it also needs not to be trigger happy.
PS.I wasn’t sure- one of the things about psychopaths is that usually they’re extremely intelligent and charismatic, not “foaming at the mouth”, which is what makes me even more wary of them.
August 13th, 2006 at 6:24 pm
Hezbollah renegs. It looks like the war is still on and it looks like the Hezbollah/Lebanon apologists will have to come up with some new excuses for why their pals turned down a near total capitulation from Israel:
http://www.israpundit.com/2006/?p=2297
Jeff Goldstein, at protein wisdom, thinks a far more elaborate game is afoot:
http://proteinwisdom.com/index.php?/weblog/entry/20803/
August 13th, 2006 at 7:18 pm
One last word for Livni –she comes from a family steeped in politics and connections to the Begin and Jabotinski streams and cut her teeth on that. She is, in essence, a hard-line conservative with intelligence and pragmaticity. She has a lot of political savvy as well, the way she has dealt with the major slights Olmert has given her of late –not kvetching and airing grievances in the media but, as she said in the only interview she gave on the subject doing her job as a member of a team as best as she can “from here” (e.g., rather than at the UN which is where she was supposed to be). The subtext is clear but can’t be faulted. She is being a “good soldier” and sticking with the party lines because that is her assigned role and to do otherwise at this point and with things in such flux would be bad for the nation, in essence. I like that she puts what is important for the country above her own personal needs and ego –and Olmert has certainly quite publicly made a body-slam to her ego.
August 13th, 2006 at 7:26 pm
first of all, golda meir was priminister in 73`, and there for will always be remmembered as the person most responsible for the biggest blunder in our short and violent history.
secondly, why not insert into the cease-fire agreement a demand from nasrallah to use his influence on god to bring rabin back from the dead.
actaully, scrap that. he’s likely to commit suicide after realizing what had happened to the peace process since his departure.
and thirdly but not leastly, while livni may be the sain voice in out cabinet, the last thing we need or want is sanity. nope, sanity is bad. sanity leads to comprimise. what the middle east needs right now is a brutal, bone-headed use of force. hence I suggest that we ellect none other but george wacker bush to be our new priminister. and since he is about to become unemployed soon, I see no reason why he should object.
August 13th, 2006 at 8:33 pm
And Miri Eisen would make a good Condi Rice, maybe?
August 13th, 2006 at 9:19 pm
There is another plus, she plays drums, so she can’t be evil… She usually refuses to answer question about her drumming, she once admitted and said that it relaxes her.
Animal was allways my favourite muppet…
http://www.forfoxsake.com/images/muppet_animal.jpg
August 13th, 2006 at 10:18 pm
Sheesh. Sorry about the link error! That was for someone else, honest! Here’s the one on Colonel Miri Eisen (I hope!
(Miri plays drums, nobody important?)
August 14th, 2006 at 6:28 am
Foist of all Golda sucked. Didn’t you see “Munich”? She made the Incredible Green Hulk very sad. Not to mention the fact that she was infected with the “conseptzia” that the Arab nations would never attack again and therefore did nothing to prepare for the attack on Yom Kippur which everyone else saw coming from the voluminous data raining in from everywhere.
As for who could or should lead Israel…uy (read: “shit”). No one I can think of, except myself of course - and I’m actually serious about that. Being as I have little chance of ever being in that position however and close to 0.000001% chance of being there anytime soon, I just have to hope that there’s someone I know nothing about who might be just great for the job.
A few years ago I’d've adamantly screamed “Sharansky!” but as of late I’ve heard little from him that I could find to be encouraging. I’m afraid he’s given up. In fact, had he not have withstood a few hundred days in Soviet solitary I’d think that he might be depressed but I doubt folk of that tempermant make it through all that he did.
I soooo miss Menachem Begin. The word that most accurately describes my feelings for him is “love”. I love him and I miss him.
mnuez
P.S. Dharma, of course Israel lost the war and nobody but Olmert and the desperately hallucinagenic is denying that. We could easilly have won militarily but the problem is that for Israel to lose it takes either Israelis or Lebanese to be killed whereas for Hizballah to lose it takes… what? I mean Israel certainly could have wiped out Hizballah by killing everyone else too but barring that, Israel’s loss was a foregone conclusion.
I’d like at this point to remind y’all that in these sandy pages I spoke out clearly and adamantly against the war on the very first day of the bombing.
I knew at the start that the was would cost many Jewish lives and even more lives of folk who were not Jewish but who were descent, good human beings. I knew that the war would accomplish nothing but those deaths. I knew that waging war against the mostly peaceful Lebanese was Coward-Olmert’s way of looking tough while fellating the real Nazis of the region, the Palestinians - whom Olmert was planning to offer even more free territory for their terroristic masses.
And most importantly I knew that Olmert would do what all of his predecessors from 1982 onwards had done - he would kick the sick dog.
When you’re approached by an enraged and deranged viscous dog with rabies you have two choices. Running or Killing. You either run for your life or you kill the rabid beast. One thing that you do not do is kick the animal for “revenge”. Because now, as the mocking but true expression goes, he’s really mad.
And I knew that this was exactly what Olmert was going to do. It’s what Barak did, it’s what Bibi did, it’s what Rabin did and it’s what Shamir did. Sharon eventually killed the dog after a year and a half of playful kicks that got more and more of us killed and Peres was honest enough to surrender (exept before elections of course, then he’d kill anything that moved (Qana, ahem).
Alas for the wasted lives. May we see Wells’ world government soon. (And I’m not being fascetious about wish.)
August 14th, 2006 at 8:19 am
The raccoon,
> I am pretty certain that I wasn’t commenting on blogs by then.
If this and this raccoon is not you commenting on blogs, the first week of the war then please accept my sincere apology.
But if it is you, then I guess we can add another item to the list of things you are “pretty certain of” despite the all facts that prove the opposite.
> Either way, it doesn’t matter. This is all words… and words will not help here.
I guess only more bombs will solve our problems right?
I hope I am just misunderstanding you.
August 14th, 2006 at 9:55 pm
“better or smarter at this point from both the israeli or arab perspective?”
Uh, General Dan Halutz?
August 15th, 2006 at 7:04 am
“I am not isreali, and I can’t really affect things either way…” - well, you can, and you are doing exactly that.
If you manage to build a strong pro-civilisation, pro-Israel, pro-prosperity movement in Egypt, pushing for strong economy based on true co-operation with Israel, capable to curb the anti-Semitism of the wider society - you will most definitely see a PM in Israel elected as the best person to help you and cooperate with you.
Then again, elect Islamic Brotherhood, and Israeli will vote on military credential only.
We are all inter-connected.
August 15th, 2006 at 4:53 pm
Livni is a total MILF. I would do her in a heartbeat!
Oh, and her politics are OK too.
September 14th, 2006 at 2:52 pm
[...] Even people outside of Israel are saying, yo Livni should be the top dog and Olmert relegated to the doghouse. This blogger from Egypt says “I like her. She is cute, She is smart, and Olmert dislikes her, which gives her total “Not retarded” points right about now. Hell, it seems like she was the only one who took sane and logical measures those past few weeks … Plus, she is a woman. Israel does really well under female leadership. It did well under Golda, and ever since Golda was no longer in power it has been acting really stupid. Maybe what Israel needs is another female leader.For all of those reasons, this blog supports Livni for PM of Israel. I am not isreali, and I can’t really affect things either way, but seriously, can you think of someone better or smarter at this point from both the israeli or arab perspective? “ [...]