of irresponsibility ever conducted by an Israeli politician, and there have been many over the years, was Amir Peretz accepting the post of Minister of Defense. No less to be held to account are all in Government who propsed and agreed to this. But most of all to blame is purely and simply the Israeli public who time and again agree to inept and selfishly motivated politicians running the country and ultimately our fate. We are to blame.

and all that comes out is blah-blah-blah. Time fr the 3 stooges to step aside and let true leaders guide us in this time of war.

Peretz immediately from office. Appoint Mofaz in his place. Mofaz must have a free hand to appoint as many deputies as he wishes, men of his choice, with whom he can work, political or apolitical. Men of experience who have the confidence of the public. Men whose track record is well proven. Immediately, not tommorrow, today.

A man after a failed plan of explulsion of Jews from Gush to hand it over to your worst enemies (with the expected failing results as spoken by Yaalon and more) has the stupidity to advocate more expulsion can only be viewd as the greatest clown Is rael ever had as prime minister. The results are unfortunately spreading into more of Israel. Stop the Naive nutcase before its to late.

I will accept all what you said. All what we need from Israeli officials is a clear statement saying that they will withdraw from West Bank till the green line. If this happens, beleive me, I will shoot any Pals shooting at u.. but Israel is eating more lands daily. do u want me to listen to u and close my eyes? we all want peace.. and I'm sure u need it as i do.. but politics didnt leave much space for me and u to see this dream becomes a fact.

If you have balls( Katsav obviously has), Stand up an be counted. Look at the Nation in the face, apologize and exit quietly.

"Israel's response will be restrained but very, very, very painful," Olmert added. Olmert only talks and never acts with determined force. The master of Israel's Road Map to destruction won't allow him to. Restraint is Israel's achillies heel,and Olmert is the biggest heel Israel has ever had. A restrained Olmert only encourages the enemy and spells disaster for Israel.

The fact that you think Israel is weak b/c couple soldiers were kidnapped only show hoe delusional you people really are. The only thing violence, kidnapping and terror will bring your people is more misery. Your people keep choosing war over peace, your leaders fail to recognize Israel and mislead you into thinking that your resistance will work. It never will, you have no infrastructure, no progress, no talent and no allies. Your own brothers have abandoned you. Start thinking with both sides of your brain...violence and terror bring you death. You must accept Israel as a neighbor and only then will you get your state back...it seems so simple, but you never seem to get it. Peace!!!

Omar,read my address.I'm not Israeli,I'm Polish. Omar,nobody will withdraw from 100% of territory if the other side does not want to sit by the table and officially does not event want to recognize that the neighbour state exist! Look, really Israel has proven that it can withdraw itself from 1,5 mln Gaza Strip - and what they got was ZERO warrants for calm,but qassams instead. I believe that Kadima will subsequently cancel settlements and withdraw from 90%,as they publicly promise. But sorry, the rest 10% and all the agreements for working and cooperation can only be set after sitting by the table and warrants that after agreement the borders will be secure (!). Instead the official Govt of PA was publicly declaring the opposite. Watch this video for example: www.israelnetdaily.com/index.php?menu_option=video&video=6 See Meshaal talking in Dec 05 about capturing Tel Aviv and Haifa! They were (unfortunatly) elected and they started these events. They spoilt all the Oslo and post-Oslo efforts. And the very strongly experienced Palestinian Nation should blame Hamas first: for their policy. Omar, compare the situation Israel is offering to Palestinians with the situation of Kurds. Kurds are in much worse situation: no chances for a state, no own TV, till last year it was even forbidden to talk in Kurdish in public. The future that the Palestinian Nation is offered by IL is completely different - the only condition is to stop with this terror and try to sit by the table. Best regards, Chris

When will the Israeli Gov't get it. Talking does not work, restrained responses do not work, then what will work is an unrestrained response and finish the job finally. Veitnam did not work by controlled fighting! War is a game to win. The only way to get the arabs off our back is to hammer them so hard they will remember not to repeat their terrorism. Israel, you must learn from history, when you are strong, the world is weak! G-d is with us, you just don't believe it.

and such a weak leadership , and the arabs smell it , like sharks in the water. omert/peretz, are good with words , but no action. damescus should be by now in ruins ,beirut on fire , and gaza , totally leveled. and world opinion? who cares? let the idiots at the fm worry about that...

Yaser Arafat was Egyptian born in Cairo, recruted by the Egyptian Military "Intelligence" to wage a war of proxy against the Israeli civilians. PLO's Bezerkistan is just a clever device to dismantle the legitimacy of the Jewish state. There could be only ONE soveregn claim to the ONE soveregn country. PLO - Hamas CLEARLY presented a simple claim absolute ERADICATION of the Jews from Israel. Israel is on other hand delegitimizing its right to the borders it held for the last 50 years. Legitimized a terrorist entety into a "statehod" is an act of criminal recklesness and perhaps an otright act of treason. Murderous thugs were killing woman and children troughout Israel for the last thousand years, only ISSUE ISrael is facing now is HOW LONG does Israel is going to EXPOSE its citizens to the Arab NONSENSE and butchery. State of Israel has its primary purpose to defend the safety of its citizens from aggression from the foregn SOURCES. PLO's BEZERKISTAND has only one claim to "legitimacy" and that is ARAB venomous hate toward Jewish State and Jewish people in general. If there is no Saudi "influence" in the US State Department would there be PLO's Bezerkistan? If Iran is not channeling moneys to Syria, Egypt and other few willing Arab partners in terror would there be a terror in Israel today? So making a MALIGNANT fiction STAND on acount of Israeli's myoptic political MIDGETS which are becoming the SERVANTS of someones "foregn policy" instead of serving interests of their own country. Plo bezerkistand is a fiction created by the enemeies of Israel, and is legitimized by the local collaborators. On this land of Israel there is going to be either Israel or yet just another Arab HELL HOLE in the Middle East. Jordan has 72 % Of Pal's in its parlament, 70% Jordanians indentify themselves to be Pal's over 90% of "Israeli" Pal's hold Jordanian pasports.. so what is a Pal land? Jerusalem? When the hell frizes over!

I'm not religious, not a Jew, but I am sick of the terror that is Islam. I wish Israel much success in destroying Hizbullah, Islamic Jihad, Hamas, and any others I may have failed to mention.

Fadi, don't be so happy. You just have to refresh your memory with the outcome of the past conflicts between Israel and the Arabs. Every conflict you lost territories, resources, human lives and you Palestinians sunk more and more into misery. Wait a little for the IDF's response, see Lebanon going back to the stone age and then I would like to see you laughing.

Olmert was mayor of Jerusalem during the suicide bombings- I think the Arabs are in for a quiet and eventual surprise. The Isralis today are not the " sacrifices for peace generation" of Peres - but the "it's payback time" and we got the know how and the will power , and the fire power- a dangerous combination.

To all these people who say Israel left gaza, this is untrue. No air space, no full border control, and no navigational water. In addition, they control the banking system, electricity supplies, water supplies, most of the trade and exporting/importing. Continued assassination of Palestinian people. Entering into gaza whenever they wish, kidnapping people (calling them terrorists, and they are resistance forces). The list is endless. Israel turned Gaza into a big prison, and the prisoners are protesting. Never say that Israel left gaza, this is idiotic!

the army of lebanon should be asked for answers.let halutz tell them how annoyed he is.

That's why we had peace after 1967 and 1973. Bomb the hell out of them. Go for it - show 'em. Who cares what the worls thinks? That's the only language they understand. How sad.

WHO IS LEARNING WHO CARES ABOUT ISRAEL MORE THAN WORLD OPINION WHAT HAS LIBERALISM BROUGHT THE WORLD WHAT HAS TOLERENCE TAUGHT THE WORLD. WHAT HAS KINDNESS TO EVIL REPAIRED WHAT HAS APPEASEMENT RECEIVED IN RETURN WHAT HAS DISENGAGMENT TAUGHT WHAT HAS HISTORY SHOWN TO THE LEADERS SHOW ME SHOW ME SHOW ME WHEN WILL THEY CALL OUT TO "GD" FOR HELP WHY DOES OLMERT SEE THE ROCKETS AS PROOF OF HIS SUCCESS OF DISENGAGEMENT WHY DOES OLMERT NOT SEE THE COMING ROCKETS AND WARS FROM FURTHER DISENGAGEMENT... ONLY TO GO WAR AGAIN , TO "WIN" BACK THE LANDS JUST DISENGAGED FROM. WHY WHY WHY

When asked, He hears and will guide and give His soldiers, those in Gov't and those on field His divine insight.

Rick go back to the bar, sit down, shut up, and drink. It'll be better for you tomorrow, and for pete sake, turn off your tv.

What we must do now is kill 10 palestinian prisioners for every soldier that is harmed. It's the only way now. And we must save members of the Hamas government for last.

I just heard someone use the name Beirut on the radio. Is it still on the map ?

I wish the kidnapped Israeli soldiers are soon released and that Israel defeats all its enemies. Many thanks, Israel, for what you are doing for the free world. May G-d protect you.