"...demands for Hamas to immediately renounce violence and recognize Israel were unrealistic at present, and that the Palestinian movement should be given more time to honor them." They've already had almost 60 years. How much more time do they need?

of course you don't want to encourage peace in the mid east. WHO WILL YOU BE ABLE TO SELL YOUR ARMS TO IF THERE WAS PEACE! imagine if tghere is peace, no selling of arms and wmd to the palis and iran, no money coming into russia from these arms deals. no profit for russia, no money for russia. YOU ARE A DISGRACE. YOU ARE NOT INTERESTED IN PEACE. YOU ARE INTERESTED IN PROFIT. it is people like you who perpetuate and increase the danger in the middle east. it is shameful when a country such as your, with political influence and what seems to be rational thinkers, will forgoe safety and peace for profit! SHAME ON YOU!!!! this is a typical usage of power of profit through destruction, not peace. my ass....."not realistic". not realistic because it doesn't suit you financially. let's face it! you know it, the arabs know it, and the world knows it! the west destroyed your country economically by bringing down the iron curtain. now you need money to ship shape your economy. money by selling arms indiscriminantely to whoever can buy it. YOU ARE A DOG!

I agree Hamas will never change. But, not in his reasoning.

Demands that Hamas stop murdering Jews is excessive and should be gradual, and Olmert does not have the guts to confront his thuggish host. While the requirements on the Palestinians are meant to be no more than mere suggestions, Israel is compelled to accelerate her obligations to "return" disputed territory. I suppose this is to expedite the construction of a new Palestinian luxury resort and shopping complex or was it their new state of the art automotive factory. Sorry I became confused with a civilized society. Will the last one to leave please turn out the lights.

And the Russians will wait first to be paid in full by the Iranians ( And Syrians) for all the rockets, centrifuges, heavy water factories, nuclear facilities etc. That will take many years and till then they will protect the Iranian regime and they associates

Russia is an enemy of Israel.

They Quartet is not working on their Road Map. I blame the Quartet and blood is on their hands. They can not follow a map. They are idiotic and useless. I blame the entire Quartet. Bush pushed this plan and now has cold feet. The Saudis demand that he get involved in the peace process. Condi Rice is useless. They do Nothing. Bush refuses to get involved. He is all talk.

he gave wepons to hizballa he giving help to hamas he even bilding the nuckler power to iran when he know what they want to do, the question why he doing it???

HAMAS WANT TO DESTROY ISRAEL AND THE LIBERALS WANT MORE APPEASEMENT AND PANDERING. HERE WE GO AGAIN(BEND OVER AND GRAB ANKLES COWARDS)PEACE AT ANY PRICE,WHY CAIN'T WE JUST GET ALONG BUFFOONS.CUT AND RUN LIBERAL QUISLINGS,BUT IT WILL MAKE THEM "FEEL GOOD"

as Winston churchill advocated is in this case inappropriate. The more time given to this vicious, bloodthirsty movement called Hamas, the greater will be their opportunity to rebuild their war machine. The fear of the UN (deja vu of their freaking out and fleeing as soon as violence errupted in the Lebanon Security Zone in 1000) to handle these murders is disturbing to say the least, and a sign that Israel will again be forced to protect herself alone. And of course the hypocritical world will condemn her for doing so, calling Israelis aggressors.

lavrov's view would help end the suffering of the occupied palestinians and the agony of the Israelis who must be unsatisfied with the policy of their government of occuping other people's land by force as giving the current palestinian government a ray of hope will leave it with no choice but to negotiate and endorse a just peace pact based on the international legitimacy, and the heads of the government stated many times that they accept to regognize Israel when the borders of Israel are identified especially they know that the palestinians won't have the atomic bomb to threaten the existence of Israel

Bullshit is Olmert's religion. He lives and breathes for it. He knows how to prepare it Ashkenazi and Sepharadi. But he never really got a taste of authentic Soviet style bullshit. So he went to the neo-Soviets for a bullshit fest. Then he came home and tried to serve the leftovers to Israel. But lucky him his countrymen aren't too interested and he gets to eat it all by himself. It turns out laughing at the clown isn't exclusive to the Teheran ayatollahs, Nasrallah and Chirac. Everyone wants a piece of this action. So the neo-Soviets were elated when Ehud wanted to stop by. Now he's got Putin and the Soviets dancing the Kazatskah. Great job "O". You should have sent Livni. But the thought of her lapping up Putin's bullshit all by herself got you jealous. Huh?

supports Israels enemies and will lead the Islamic world, Iran, Lebanon, Syria et al into the war of Gog and MaGog

Words, not actions, was all that America and Europe required of the PLO/Palestinian Authority terrorist organization who broke ALL agreements. For many years, American and European tax dollars have financed the war against Jews. The military wing of Palestinian Authority Abbas's Fatah party, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, is responsible for massive terrorist atrocities against Jewish innocents. The U.S. EU UN, displaying ugly, Jew-hating racism, seek the forcible removal of up to 100,000 Jews from the Jewish ancestral homeland - Biblical Judea and Samaria to duplicate the Muslim terrorist victory of the Gaza surrender - Global Islamic Terror State Two advancing global jihad's unopposed march to world conquest and Jewish annihilation. The Hamas goal is conquest of Israel and Europe: HAMAS Targets Spain By Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld FrontPageMagazine.com | January 2, 2006 It is not only Palestine that children in the West Bank and Gaza are asked to liberate; now they are asked to liberate Seville. The HAMAS children’s magazine, Al-Fateh, in a recent issue, (No. 66), tells the children about the city called Asbilia (Seville) and calls on them to free it, together with the whole country, from the infidels and to reinstate Muslim rule... Qaradawi, calls on Muslims to conquer Europe, saying: “Islam will return to Europe as a conqueror and a victor... Apparently encouraged by successful Jihad against Israel, HAMAS is now raising the ante, going international. Just as they have indoctrinated a generation of Palestinian children to commit suicide attacks against Israelis, they are now expanding their targets to include the rest of the Caliphate – beginning with Spain. It is only a matter of time, before today’s Palestinian children, and others exposed to HAMAS’ publications start offering themselves up for the next stage of Jihad in Spain. http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20726

Herd of Law Of Diminishing Returns. Today it is Russia.Tomorow it will be EU. Then dont be surprised it could be the Americans later.Yes Americans.Israeli arrogance and intrasigence will lead to that

because russian pride as a superpower (once in the past) has been damaged by the usa when ragean devastated their economy with the "space war project", bringing down russia and demolishing their economy. ragean did this by having an "arms race" with russia during his presidency, making russia spend billions on the military and weapons. as a result, russian economy collapsed. it was a brilliant move on the usa's part....but this left russia with a bitter taste in their mouth and a thorn in their national pride as a superpower. (same thing that happened to germany in wwi, which created the fervor of hitler and eventually, nazi germany). the only thing russia can do for its horrible economy is to sell military equipment, military research, build nuclear reactors in arab countries, sell wmd into terrorist hand irresponsibly, send scientists to iraq and iran to work on biological and nuclear weapons, etc.... these things are big big big money for russia and this is why they refuse to put sanctions on north korea and iran. they know sanctions will hurt them economically. it's not that russia hates israel. it's that they want to benefit from these deals with arab regimes no matter the consequences.....as long as it is profitable. all this is on one hand. on the other hand, this is a perfect time for russia to sieze the opportunity to become a world power and leader again, allied with the arab world, iran, north korea, etc... they want a bit of taste of the good old times here what can one expect from putin. he wants russia to go back in time to the way it used to operate. he also wants to put the usa in its place and make us all believe that he will be a power to recon with in the future. russia is slowly becoming more communistic by the day with putin the sole and unquestioned commander. a kgb man, was , is, and will always be. he's from the old school. liar and corrupt just like the leaders he's making business deals with.

Russia is fine with Muslim terrorism and violence so long as it is directed at little Jewish boys and girls and not against little Russian boys and girls. Palestinian Muslims are good but Chechan Muslims are evil! Why did Mr. Olmert go to Russia, begging, hat in hand? Doesn't he remember all the bloody Russian backed Arab wars against Israel?

Arms for Chechnya !

Somebody should Google this quote of Winston Churchill and learn that it was uttered in 1954! In other words, long after World War II. Context. context. context.

I can't believe Mr. Edud Olmert would even think Russia would be on Israel's side. They are soooo two face the US. new of it for over 50 years. General Patton new of it back in 1945 and wanted to finish them off but politics you know? You can't trust a russian, government that is.

~"Demanding now that Hamas fully accept the 'quartet's conditions', such as the recognition of Israel, the denunciation of violence against Israel, and the acceptance of all existing agreements is 'unrealistic' at the present stage," Lavrov said Friday. Let's not forget WHO we're talking about! And then ask why anyone would want to hear anything PUTIN has to say. Once KGB, always KGB. Only the labels have changed. http://www.spacewar.com/reports/BMD_Rumblings_from_Russia_999.html

YOU HAVE NEVER HAD AND NEVER WILL HAVE YOUR OWN LAND!!!!!

http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=NjUzMGU4NTMyOTdkOTdmNTA1MWJlYjYyZDliODZkOGM

not in the CONTEXT of WWII but rather the Cold War between the West and the USSR. You are right about the date. In that CONTEXT Churchill, a perceptive and magnificent man, was probably right, since things eventually did work out peacefully, although it took time - about 35 years. But the Russians were rather more civilized and approachable than Islamic Fundamentalists. The well-known 'jaw-jaw' quote, I meant to suggest, was inappropriate in the present CONTEXT as we are not dealing with people we can sit and speak peace with.

Russia has long been a godless state. Therefore, man is merely EXPENDABLE "physical matter". Leftist secular liberalism is godless through worldly [manmade] "intellectualism" Most of Europe, particularly Germany and France, are socialist liberals [humanitarian intellectualism] Nazi Germany "intellectualized" the atrocities of Shoa as "dead men walking" COMPLETELY numb and blind to UNFATHOMABLE CARNAGE & WICKEDNESS Like Nazism, radical Islam is completely godless in its intellectualized worship of genocide and comlete hatred of life -- including their own Is it any wonder these IMPLACABLE enemies are Israel's - the people who introduced God Almighty and His MORAL COMPASS to the world? "In the days of Noah, the world was filled with violence and crime; every man doing what SEEMED RIGHT in HIS OWN SIGHT" Secular liberal Israel's ONLY HOPE IS in the MORAL COMPASS set forth by Almighty God... [The Bible] ISRAEL'S FOUNDER