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Peretz: I am man of peace, not combat
Aviram Zino
Published: 27.06.06, 23:03
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1. This Guy and the entire cabinet is clueless
Nachum ,   USA   (06.27.06)
This is the price for expeling Gush Katif and giving over the phildelphi Security to Egypt. For all we know this unfortunate soldier may have been smuggled thru the phildelphi and out of egypt. Bottom line is weekness breeds weekness breeds Kassams Abductions....War My feeling is this Cabinet will not last to long. Interseting what is the argument of all the lefties who were for the expulsion when every one with a pea mind knew more or less what was to follow.
2. Peretz=MIchael Moore.
Daisy ,   USA   (06.27.06)
America would never have someone like Michael Moore as the leader of our defense department. The IDF is becoming a joke.
3. He should resign
Kyle ,   Southpark, CO, USA   (06.27.06)
He is not qualified!
4. DO SOMETHING!!!!
BRANT ,   Hilton Head USA   (06.27.06)
Mr. Peretz: Stop tooting your own horn. Few of us care how you describe yourself. You are a union leader turned Defence Minister only because of political expediency. So, shut up and be a defence minister and regain the upper hand. You are looking a bit like a fool, sir.
5. Selling the Israeli public more pipe-dreams
Zionist ,   Israel   (06.27.06)
Dialogue, compromise, security and peace? Bartender, cut this man off, he's had one too many! Did someone forget to inform Mr. Peretz who is running the PA?
6. He Said It ---
Reuven Brauner ,   Raanana, Israel   (06.27.06)
"According to Peretz, "The situation is complicated and demands nerves of steel, good judgment, responsibility and wisdom."" Sadly, Mr. Peretz has none of this qualities...
7. Palestinians are not our neighbors but our enemy
Dudu ,   Kfar Sava   (06.27.06)
Transfer is the only solution.
8.  is peretz needing a doctor in psychology ?
cordier   (06.27.06)
9. Get Rid Of Peretz NOW
Adina Kutnicki ,   US   (06.27.06)
Peretz is a schizoid lunatic. Get rid of him NOW and place Yaalon at the helm. One minute he opines about being a man of peace. The next minute he tries on a tough posture. All the while he talks about Israel's(genocidal) 'neighbors'. Peretz is a DANGER to the defense of Israel. Only a stalwart believer in the IDF and the security forces maintaining an absolute deterrent capability, and a minister capable of delivering punishing blows will save Jewish deaths.
10. Is Peretz DEFENSE Minister for PA/PLO/Hamas???
Linda Rivera ,   New York   (06.27.06)
Peretz is highly successul at defending PA/PLO/Hamas and PA Muslims who voted for the Hamas platform to kill all Jews.
11. peretz
yaakov ,   Judea   (06.27.06)
lets his own hometown citizens live in a cycle of terror and says he cannot do anything, now he tries with ynet assistance to spin the fact that he is a ---AM-HAARETZ................PERIOD
12. Peretz has full responsibility for outcome
alan ,   frisco   (06.27.06)
All men have tests and this one is Peretz's. If he gets Galid out, then his rhetoric is fine. If Galid is killed by the terror state in Gaza called Ham as, then it is hoped he will use the steel within his power. One could argue, his less than sterling responses in the last month have contributed to this situation, but let us not yet be historians or harsh critics. We are a mishpacha and in crisis we should act as one in unity.
13. Transfer for whom?
Al ,   Chicago   (06.27.06)
if any one is going to be transfered...it's the new people...who just got to the Neighborhood 50 years ago and want to take over...wake up habibi...transfer days are over...no it's time for freedom.
14. Israel's new weapon Talk us to death
Marcel ,   Florida   (06.27.06)
Peretz and Olmert only talk and most are lies . The say they will get tough but are even afraid to cut off water and electricity to PA . They have the power and only move their mouths and do nothing. Cowards Lose ,Go home and hid under your bed peace lover ,you may find peace there.
15. shiva in advance for all israeli lives lost to Peretz policy
chaim ,   phoenix usa   (06.27.06)
Today Peretz is quoted as saying, We must be prepared to protect ourselves I think what he means is I must be prepared to protect myself, the other Israelis should absorb the daily rockets attacks as was announced by his mentor Shimon Peres the chosen Prime Minister which he is just a heartbeat away from. His shrill of “they will pay a high and painful price." Must be taken and understood according to his perverted faulty philosophy as pure trash as he firmly holds to his opinion that the Arab terrorists are his cherished neighbors, Peretz unhesitatingly stated in front of a full press court and in the presence of IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz and Israeli President Moshe Katzav., " The Palestinians are our neighbors and we are theirs. The situation is complicated and demands nerves of steel, good judgment, responsibility and wisdom. I am a man who seeks peace and I do not look forward to battle. My desire for peace with them is great and real” I hope he is granted the ability to be faced with the cherished terrorists in a face to face meeting on their territory without his personal security contingent present, maybe then he will have a true understanding of just what his beloved neighbors are really like.
16. Palestinians should pay for their crimes.
Murray ,   Pittsburgh, PA   (06.27.06)
I am sick and tired of the victim status these whiners keep attaching to themselves, then everyone begs the mean Israel from picking on the people who just lobbed rockets or sent some poor sap with a bomb strapped to their chest to kill some people at the market. I'll bet the Abbas, HAMAS, and the other smaller groups are all working together in these attacks and kidnappings, but want the ability to deny that actions from another group. Israel should wipe out the entire "leadership" of the PA and the HAMAS and wipe out all roads to Israel from Palestinian. No UN or US should get involved in local event, since the PA has been asking for an asskicking for a long time.
17. This Gov. has got to go. Such an embarrassment.
Jeremiah ,   Israel   (06.27.06)
18. PA Muslims Voted for Hamas PLATFORM of MURDER OF ALL JEWS
Linda Rivera ,   New York   (06.28.06)
Palestinian Authority Muslims voted for the Hamas platform which calls for the murder of all Jews. Israel now has to contend with an Iran-Syria-Hizbullah-Hamas axis as well as Al-Qaeda. From the Hamas Charter: Israel, by virtue of its being Jewish and of having a Jewish population, defies Islam and the Muslims. Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it. The Day of Judgment will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad.
19. Olmert: "WE ARE TIRED OF DEFEATING OUR ENEMIES"
Linda Rivera ,   New York   (06.28.06)
"We are tired of fighting, we are tired of being courageous, we are tired of winning, we are tired of defeating our enemies, we want to be able to live in an entirely different environment of relations with our enemies." -- Ehud Olmert in a June 2005 address to the Israel Policy Forum in New York. As Israel's enemies grow stronger, strengthend with the Gaza surrender, Olmert makes the stunning admission that he's tired of defeating Israel's enemies. Tired of winning, Olmert plans to surrender the strategic high ground of Judea and Samaria to Israel's implacable enemies, so that they can win.
20. RESIGN RESIGN RESIGN
yosef ,   NY, USA   (06.28.06)
Go back to Sderot with the kassams you refuse to stop.
21. The Cowardly Lion
Steven ,   San Francisco   (06.28.06)
is Peretz, Livni is Dorothy, the Scarecrow is Olmert, and the Tin Man is Peres, and off to Oz (the land of blissful convergence) they go.
22. Peretz is a Leftist scum
Francois ,   Paris & Montréal   (06.28.06)
Peretz is not a man of peace, he is a disgusting appeaser. A real man of peace would seek peace through crushing these Arab settlers.
23. Which Israelis voted for him???
Jenny ,   NYC   (06.28.06)
The Israelis who voted for the Peretz/Olmert combo should lower their heads in shame. These 2 are a disaster for Israel and their citizens. They have let Israel look worse than Hamas when Hamas and their cronies have shot hundreds of kassams at Sderot over one weekend!!! Olmert/Peretz are embarassing and shaming the IDF, Israelis and Jews everywhere. They MUST go.
24. #8: Peretz needs a doctor of psychology.
Yakov, Ph.D.   (06.28.06)
I am a doctor of psychology. Peretz needs one.
25. very important
simon ,   new york   (06.28.06)
peretz should march in the gay pride parade
26. readying these comments I wonder?
Ray ,   Los Angeles, CA   (06.28.06)
If you were an alien that just showed up on earth and read this blog, you would think that Israel is the vicitm here...well the occupation is the problem...Israel is exactly like the old south africa..the new apartheid state...shame on israelis for doing to palestinians what ever hitler did to them...
27. You are a man of cowardice not leadership
Arie   (06.28.06)
28. Mr Trotsky-Moustache should resign. Bring in Effi Eitam
Yael ,   Rishon   (06.28.06)
29. move to sderot...
those furthest away ,   shout loudest   (06.28.06)
then you can criticise peretz
30. Finally - a Defense Minister who isn't afraid to think
Karen R ,   USA   (06.28.06)
Now maybe there can be some progress. No knee-jerk reprisals that create more attacks and endanger more people, not to mention killing children as "collateral damage." Mr. Peretz knows that killing for the sake of revenge will not reach the goal. Force is sometimes necessary - now is one of those times. But force for the sake of force is self-defeating. Its use has to be carefully considered and planned, and used only when there is no alternative. Mr. Peretz knows this, and I say "kol hakavod" to him.
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