The ground Commanders know better in formulating the right tactics. The Chief should back them instead of trying to modify their tactics. To be effective, the Chief should be a Dayan or a Rabin or a Sharon or an Eitan. The Chief should have been a Field Commander who has been a Warrior Hero and has led soldiers in the battlefields--a battle hardened Commander.

Olmerts empty threats are a cruel joke on Israelis.

Then another and another,ect.

Your three reasons for restraint are weak and unfounded. 1) Why give Abass (another holocaust denier) leg room to gain power. The guy is just another terrorist in a suit and wants Israels destruction as much as Hezbollah. 2)How do you know Shalit is being held in the southern Gaza Strip and what proof do you have that he is even still alive? 3) Why does Israel need international backing? Have they ever backed us in the past? We are condemned no matter what we do so whats the point of worrying what they think. This current government is weak and the laughing stock of the world.

Just repeat the same failed policies, the same mistakes, over & over. Abbas is just another failed politician, Fatah is a bunch of thieves, & Hamas is another bunch of Islamic crazies. Nothing will bring peace until these groups are removed from the scene.

Terry says: Nothing will bring peace until these groups are removed from the scene. Terry , Eilat, Israel (12.23.06) ... but isn't that just a mirror image of what the most dedicated enemies of Israel say about the existence of Israel? The Christian Crusaders thought they could establish a permanent presence in the region by force rather than by integration. They failed. I hope Israel can avoid repeating their mistakes.

THIS IS IT,LAST-FINAL-ULTIMATE-FINITE-DELIBERATE CHANCE GIVING BY THE (FROGIFIED ESOTERIC "CHOSEN FEW"FINAL MEETING WILL BE HELD AT (LAST CHANCE SALOON! BACK TO ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

the definition of schizophrenia is the repetition of same action over and over with the expectation of a different result each time. Seems to me that our Israeli leaders are suffering from that same malady. Time for a change.

Concessions, Concessions, Concessions and what do we get in return, Nada, Zilch, Zero, Ephes. C'est La Ronde, reminds everyone of the invitation extended to the Romans to come and mediate between the Jews and the Greeks. The Badr Brigade will wreck havoc in Israel. Where is our Kidnapped soldier? Ehud Olmert please recuse yourself from the leadership of Israel!

And he WILL BE when Feiglin becomes PM!

We expelled thousands of law-abiding Jews from Gaza in order to bring peace; we got war instead. But we gave them one last chance. Gaza has become a terror infested haven with great stock piles of weaponry thanks to Codoleezza Rice's initiative which opened the Rafah border crossing to the free-flow of terrorists and weapons. Rice said, give them one last chance. Our fellow Jews who provided a buffer and security to southern Israel are languishing and the man who expelled them is in a Tel Aviv hospital, lying in a coma. But we gave them one last chance. We consummated Oslo and now some 1500 dead Jews and thousand maimed for life later, at least we gave them one last chance. The writer says, let's give our Hitlers another chance. The international community and Bush are giving Iran one last chance. Meanwhile Iran is giving the international community the middle finger. Israel waits for a first strike. If only Neville Chamberlain had given Herr Hitler one last chance, perhaps there would have been no war; perhaps there would have been no Shoah.

Palestinian flags in Jerusalem. Israel is in a great need of Maccabees, again.