Wil the politician Olmert once again fail to finish the job he started as he did with Hizbollah ? Does he leave his mess for others to clean up at a later and more costly time ? Is he a poodle ,a lap dog for failed international interests who sell out Israel to appease the Islamic world ?

Why isn't his release one of the conditions????

You are in an excellent position to demand his return now. Don't mess up!!

the usa

"We will hold our fire under two conditions: One is an end to the arms smuggling from Sinai into Gaza, and the other is the cessation of all terror activity; not just the rocket fire," Olmert declared. Palestinians mujahidins' conditions: 1. End the supply of sophisticated arms and billions dollar of money from the USA. 2. Cessation of state terrorism upon the Palestinians (the current assaults and the total blockade)

2006? "Hizbullah must stop firing rockets, or we'll completely destroy them." Now, Hizbullah has become even stronger, able to hit anywhere in Israel with extremely powerful rockets. Don't you realize that Israel will never be able to stop the rocket fire by aggression? Make peace happen...or you'll be putting both sides at risk.

Kadima has a brilliant plant to let egypt be in charge of stopping smuggling of iranian rockets to israel. Egyptian police make money off the smuggling and kadima thinks they will stop it. It is a joke bbc showed reporters finding tunnels out in the open. Egypt will not go into homes to stop the tunnels. If Bibi was PM he would have had the tunnel network destroyed. We are still paying for the election of olmert.

Notice how Kadima won't send in ground troops to rafah. No they want to use that as leverage to force egypt to stop it. Like egypt's word is worth anything. Kadima is impressed with egypt. After all egypt has let in non stop smuggling for years with egyptian police helping hamas smuggle in iranian weapons. Egyptian police make a profit. Kadima instead of sending in our troops to take out the tunnels is going to let the smuggling continue with EU on the philadelphia route and egypt stopping the smuggling. This will only allow Hamas to build up rockets. Kadima did this to hurt israel before they are out of power. Kadima are traitors.

Amanpour criticizes israel for civilian gaza casualties. She never criticizes hamas for using civilian cover as americans can tell you in Iraq-same story. Gazans voted for hamas, hand out sweets when israelis are killed by tractors, or bombs. They bloody well deserve it. The UN and Europe should choose and think about it seriously- a) Al quaeda, hamas and hezboollah with a caliphate in Spain headed by iran ruling Europe or fighting terror with Israel. If you choose hamas and terror, Israel will fight on its own to the last man. You go live with hamas and alquada and eat norweigan sardines while you say allah akbar.

At this moment of maximum leverage, Olmert fails to demand Shalit's immediate release in his conditions - doesn't even mention his name. Olmert the appeaser is throwing Shalit under the bus, just as he did when he traded the most vile terrorist murderer in our prisons for the remains of our soldiers from hezbollah. Enough of Olmert and the whole kadima clown show. Elections can't come soon enough.

Whatever happened to Total War Smash Hamas....I do hope Hamas See through this Zionist trick

If we will leave Gaza without Gilad, I will leave Israel......back to Europe :(

OLMERT HAS COMPROMISED: 1. Our citizens 2. Our future 3. Our country 4. Our people 5. Our safety 6. Our laws 7. Our moral standards Olmert, there are things that can't be compromsed

Hamas believes that killing Jews is a prerequisite to redemption. The essential problem with Hamas is not the missiles and rockets it showers on Israel, but the core belief that killing Jews is a prerequisite to redemption. Hamas's ongoing attempts to kill Jews, which have led to the current Gaza War, are a symptom of the far deeper problem -- the ideology teaching that Allah demands the extermination of Jews. Israel and the West must create a strategy not only to destroy the terror infrastructures of Hamas, but to ultimately ensure that Jews and the world are safe from this ideology and its consequences. As to what Hamas really want : http://xrl.us/bjurj

A man of compromise, indeed... what an idiotic posture to assume in the middle of a battle! Can't believe this guy - Olmert is going to lose yet another war.

Maybe you can play the part of your namesake and be the champion for Gaza. I would be happy to do the same and play the part of my namesake and cut off your head.