Op-Ed: Olmert’s Peace Plan is Really a Death Trap
Ehud Olmert, the previous prime minister of Israel, tried to stick his head into the ongoing UN fiasco by penning an op-ed for the NY Times titled, “Peace Now, or Never.” After reading it your left wondering how Israel ever survived three years under him.
He’s obviously feeling left out and unimportant, so he’s doing a politicians version of jumping up and down and screaming look at me, look at me! Well Ehud, we’re all looking and it’s not a pretty sight.
He starts off reminding us of his offer he put on the table back in September 2008. He writes, “The parameters of a peace deal are well known and they have already been put on the table. I put them there in September 2008 when I presented a far-reaching offer to Mr. Abbas.” Now wait a second Ehud, if you have the best solution to the ever-lasting Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and you already laid it out 3 years ago, why do you think all of a sudden now it’s going to be accepted by both parties if it was already rejected the first time you tried it?
Anyways, the wizard of peace continues, “According to my offer, the territorial dispute would be solved by establishing a Palestinian state on territory equivalent in size to the pre-1967 West Bank and Gaza Strip with mutually agreed-upon land swaps that take into account the new realities on the ground.” Okay that’s not too crazy, but wait until you read what the wizard of peace wrote next.
“The city of Jerusalem would be shared. Its Jewish areas would be the capital of Israel and its Arab neighborhoods would become the Palestinian capital. Neither side would declare sovereignty over the city’s holy places; they would be administered jointly with the assistance of Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United States.”
Are you kidding me? We will be forced to get on our hands and knees and beg some Jordanian official every time we want to daven at the Kossel? Or have some Saudi Arabian official decide who’s holly enough to go to the Kossel?
All I can say is, thank g-d he isn’t the prime minister any more. And judging by the last election where the right wing blocks won the majority, I think most Israelis agree with me.
hes a thief
this is the clown that is on trial for stealing
why should you be suprised if he steals land from jews
Anonymous
It’s clear from the news interviews that this is a joint PR push with Saeb Ekrat and the palestinians. It’s been very smoothly done too. ‘Oh how sad that that instrigent Netanyahu is blocking a peace deal when we we *this* close with Olmert.’
No mention of palestinian missles, bus bombings or terrorist attacks of course. No talk about Hamas or the calls to destroy Israel. No mentioning that it has been the palestinian side that has refused to even negotiate.
Just about how Netanyahu and the Israeli right are supposedly blocking an easy peace deal.
This has been combined with that other big news story that Turkey is upset with Israel because the ‘stubborn’ Israelis refuse to apologize for killing those ‘poor victims’ in the gaza flotilla. No mention of the Turkish demand that Israel allow Hamas to freely ship in missles and weapons to Gaza as a precondition for accepting an apology.
We are in dangerous times. Please daven for the safety of Am Yisroel.
-Joint- control of Jerusalem-s Holy pl
Control of Jerusalem’s holy places by a board of 5 members, 3 of them arab and only one Jewish is not joint. It’s only to save face for turning over the Har HaBayis to the arabs.