Israel's Olmert (yeah, he's still around) Says Israel Must Give Up All Of The West Bank

Good grief, get Olmert out of there! I realize that Livni is having some issues getting a majority party in place for her to take over but get Olmert the hell out of the picture and away from any microphones and certainly away from any Palestinian leader! Olmert, in his latest venture into submitting to islamic terror, is suggesting that Israel give up about 98% of the West Bank to the Palestinians - here's some of the details of this disastrous stance from HotNewsTurkey:

Israel’s interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Israel must give up virtually all the occupied West Bank including east Jerusalem, insisting in an interview published on Monday this was key to achieving peace with the Palestinians.

"We have to reach an agreement with the Palestinians, the meaning of which is that in practice we will withdraw from almost all the territories, if not all the territories," said Olmert, who heads an interim government following his September 21 resignation.

"We will leave a percentage of these territories in our hands, but will have to give the Palestinians a similar percentage, because without that there will be no peace," he told the mass-circulation Yediot Aharonot newspaper.

"Including in Jerusalem," he said in reference to the predominantly Arab eastern part of the Holy City which Israel occupied and annexed after the 1967 war and which Palestinians want as the capital of their future state.

His comments are expected to stir deep controversy. Israel officially considers Jerusalem its "eternal, undivided" capital, a view Olmert -- a former mayor of the city -- said he shared for many years.

This is insanity. It has been proven over the years, time and time again, that there is no use in giving ONE INCH of land to the Palestinians. They don't want the West Bank. They don't want most of Jerusalem. They want the whole damn country of Israel! Why is this so hard for Olmert to see? This guy has been brain-washed by every world leader that comes to him and tells him that Israel is an occupier and it's bullshit.

Here's my prediction. With Olmert's statements here, it will become even more difficult for Livni to get her Kadima party to pull together a majority and what will eventually take place, in my dreams...mind you, is that the Likud party is going to grab the reins of the country.

It's my feelings that right now, with Hezbollah at their strongest point in decades along with the Iranian nuke plans nearing completion, the only party that can stand up to save Israel from disaster is the Likud party. No, it's probably not a perfect solution but to see Olmert's gang offering even more appeasement to Abbas and the scumbag Palestinians is going to be too much for most Israelis to stomach.

Interim PM Olmert says Israel must give up almost all West Bank

"I am not trying to justify retroactively what I did for 35 years. For a large portion of these years, I was unwilling to look at reality in all its depth," said Olmert, who turns 63 on Tuesday.

But he stressed that giving up parts of the city is key to Israel’s security, pointing to deadly July attacks by Palestinians from east Jerusalem who ploughed through crowded streets with bulldozers.

"Whoever wants to hold on to all of the city’s territory will have to bring 270,000 Arabs inside the fences of sovereign Israel. It won’t work," Olmert said.

"A decision has to be made. This decision is difficult, terrible, a decision that contradicts our natural instincts, our innermost desires, our collective memories, the prayers of the Jewish people for 2,000 years.

"I think that we are very close to reaching agreements," he said, even though the peace process with the Palestinians has made little visible progress since it was relaunched at a US-hosted conference in November.

He said that also applied to indirect negotiations with longtime foe Syria which were relaunched in May after a eight-year hiatus, with Turkey acting as a go-between.

He made it clear peace would come at a price for both sides; with Israel having to give up the annexed Golan Heights and demanding Syria end its current ties with Iran and stop backing "the Hamas terrorism, the Al-Qaeda terrorism and the jihad in Iraq."

"In both cases, the decision we have to make is a decision that we have been refusing for 40 years to consider with our eyes open," he said, warning, however that there were no risk-free solutions.

He did not rule out military confrontation in Syria in the coming years or renewed bloodshed in the West Bank.

"We don’t know, for example, what will happen in the Palestinian Authority after January 9, 2009," he said.

On the one hand, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, whose term ends that day, could remain in power "with some manipulation," he said.

"But we believe that there is a very great danger that there will be a bloody clash, which will thwart any possibility of continuing negotiations and perhaps will force us to be involved in the confrontation, with bloodshed, with everything that could happen as a result."

Olmert formally presented his resignation on September 21 amid deep political turmoil over a series graft allegations that caused police to recommend criminal indictments.

He will remain interim prime minister until a new government is formed. The governing Kadima party’s newly elected leader, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni is scrambling to put together a government coalition in order to avert snap elections that could put the right-wing Likud party in power.