Don, you are right on. Great post. This protest is all about Israel's right wing that makes no bones about what it thinks Israel's policies should be, both foreign and domestic. If the majority left and middle came out by the millions, I would say something else. 100,000 people, do not make for policy or leadership changes. Heck, here in Los Angeles, 500,000 people demonstrate...Congress still takes it's time in enacting laws. Olmert might do himself a favor and resign, other P.M. have succumb to Israeli criticism., including Golda. Israel has to calm down, chill out, think things through. Hezbollah cannot defeat Israel on Israel's soil. They can be defeated anytime by the IDF, given their arsenal of weapons. We (US) could take out all of Baghdad or Iraq within 20 minutes, maybe less. But we have to be civilized. Israel still has the high ground. This is not 67 when 100,000 Egyptians were on your border, with fighter bombers, Sam Missiles....come on Israel.

this is what democracy is about: peaceful protest, commissions of inquiry, accountability. It is much better than the sytems that all but Turkey have in place. And Turkey is not an Arab country. you can have it to if you adopt the principles of democracy that evolved out of 1789.

"We are tired of fighting, we are tired of being courageous, we are tired of winning, we are tired of defeating our enemies, we want to be able to live in an entirely different environment of relations with our enemies." -- Ehud Olmert in a June 2005 address to the Israel Policy Forum in New York. Olmert makes the stunning admission that he's tired of defeating Israel's enemies. During the second Lebanon war under intense U.S. pressure, Israel's weak leaders to the horror of the Free World's people, agreed to UN resolution 1701 that prevented the goal vital to Israel's security - eliminating the rocket threat from Lebanon. UN Resolution 1701 successfully prevented Israel from defeating Iran's terrorist army Hezbollah thus aiding and empowering Hezbollah who now threaten to take over Lebanon. Israel surrendered Gaza - Jewish land in exchange for war to PA/PLO/Hamas terrorists. Tired of winning, Olmert, Livni and Peretz are determined to surrender the strategic high ground of Biblical Judea and Samaria to Israel's implacable enemies, so that they can win. Peace never came via phony peace agreements or resolutions. Peace is achieved only through utter defeat of the enemy. Dear Israelis: Demand a stop to the surrenders. Demand that your enemies are utterly defeated.

and, yes, you MUST have new elections. Good luck.

I don't think the Left would have great prospects in new elections. As far as Kadima goes, it's history!

It's hopeless. It almost seems like the more the public is disgusted with him, the more arrogant he becomes. Sad...truly sad. Let us pray that the next war will not break out with these guys still at the helm.