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Olmert's doomsday weapon

Nation aghast as prime minister uses tough Lebanon War rhetoric against Barak

Following Labor Party Chairman Ehud Barak's vote against the proposed budget cuts, "sources close to the prime minister" made the following statement: "We have not yet reached the phase where Olmert must turn to Barak and tell him: 'No more!' Yet if the Labor Party will object to the budgetary cuts in the Knesset Finance Committee vote as well, this phase will come…'"

 

We read it and were horrified. The threat to again make use of the "no more!" warning reminded us of the prime minister's threats during the Second Lebanon War (where he also declared "no more!" following Hizbullah's border attack and the abduction of the two IDF soldiers.) Yet we were not the only ones who got scared.

 

My source at the Defense Ministry told me about what happened at the Ministry's headquarters in Tel Aviv following the declaration. Branch managers – men of steel who during their army service took over fortified compounds, paved their way through minefields, and operated behind enemy lines – fled their office screaming: "Not that again…not "no more!"…no…no…"

 

Meanwhile, mythological secretaries, women of steel who were there during national defense crises that have not yet been revealed even, called their colleagues at the Prime Minister's Office screaming as well: "Not that, not "no more!"…please, tell him…"

 

Save it for real enemies

Even Ehud Barak, so I have been told, was overcome by uncontrollable shivers. The man who whispered to the Sabena flight attendant "silence, mon cherie" while advancing on the wing of the hijacked airplane in the legendary operation in the 1970s, the same man who crawled inside the old British oil pipeline from Haifa to Iraq and installed a homing device in Saddam Hussein's wisdom teeth – that man wiped the first beads of sweat forming on his forehead.

 

"No more? He said 'no more'? Please check if my bomb shelter is ready."

 

Therefore, I ask of you, Mr. Prime Minister, please, rethink this. Ehud Barak is a determined and dangerous political rival, but he is not an enemy that requires you to again use your doomsday weapon.

 

Please save your "no more!" for the real enemies. Iran, Tzipi Livni, or the pirate radio stations near Ben Gurion airport.

 

After all, following your "no more" declaration you may again resort to declaring that "we will win," and there is a limit to the number of achievements, success stories and victories this worn out nation can bear in a year.

 


פרסום ראשון: 07.13.07, 14:41
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