and as a matter of fact we are tired of listening to the same old same old---please leave already ,get out of our way and we will stop them.

Exactly the wrong approach. Arabs don't hear a humanitarian message, they hear an anouncement of weakness, squeemishness, fear of conflict. They see an old fool blabbering away about sentimental crap. This may go down well among Israeli Leftists but to an Arab audience this is an admission of weakness. If you think I'm just repeating a stereotype, you have only to listen to the sermons in the mosque, old speeches by Arab leaders, even speeches by irrelevent Mr Abbas. Look at the heros of the Arab world - not a humanitarian among them just monsters like Saddam, Nasser, Arafat (in Arabic), Kuntar, Nasrallah, Ahmadinejad (even though he's not an Arab), all violent murders & thugs. The only time you hear a vaguely humanitarian plea is in Palestinian propaganda for the brain-dead media when they drag out women & children & pretend they're victims of Israeli aggression. What Olmert does is encourage aggression, encourage hope that we can be defeated. And with people like Olmert in charge, that's exactly what will happen.

He still doesn't grasp that the Gaza residents ARE Hamas. That's why they voted for them. And this is our prime minister. Rock of Israel, save us.

Well I certainly would never listen to anything or do anything that Star Wanker Olmert <>asked me to pay attention to of do. Has anyone but me noticed that Olmert looks like he is under the close supervison of a Theatrical Director, looking for an Oscar for his true to life portrayal of a miserable lowlife scuzzball of no moral chracter whatsoever?

his welcome. (like an uninvited guest who is the last one to leave) How do you expect the people of Gaza with no balls at all (except for hating and killing Jews) to stop Hamas? Only the impotent idiot Olmert would make such a comment. In the mean time this government does nothing expecting Hamas to somehow police Hamas.

in Gaza don't take your word for anything anymore than we in Israel do. Most importantly Ehud the idiot refuses to say if and when the people in Gaza get sick and tired of the way they live they will rise up against their own just like millions of people in other circumstances have done down through the ages. This is a historical fact btw. Looks to me they have come no where near the desire for a better life expect one which destroys Jews. Olmert, you are a laughing stock; a delusional clown. Go home. The party is over!

The sooner Olmert is gone the better and preferably to jail but I am sure his adoring Left will keep him out of prison

IS THIS THE BIG WAR? OR WILL ISRAEL FALL INTO SLAVERY UNTIL MASHIACH. THESE ARE QUESTIONS BROUGHT TO LIGHT TODAY BECAUSE OF OLMERT AND BARAKS WORDS. I DONT GET PRIDE OR CONFIDENCE I GET WORRY AND FEAR, Not from hamas or abba but from israeli politicians

The Gazans must stop the terrorists from operating on their streets or risk death. This was the great genius method used by the Russians. The IDF will need to erase the first 6 neighborhoods that Hamas operates from. Then the Gazans will join the IDF and fight Hamas . Its guaranteed.

with the State Dept,the EU Commissioners and now even the Egyptian President summons the Israeli Foreign Minister .(I cant imagine Abba Eban going for an audience with the Egyptian President-can anyone?) Gazans can wage terror or war on Israel ,howsoever they deem fit.For them there is no Geneva Convention , No threats of Arrest if their Terros go on a private visit to Europe,no Hague Tribunal ...zilch . They can murder or destroy propert yad lib . They can turn every womans budoir into a rocket launch pad. Every child can be kitted out as a suicide bomber . Every woman can smuggle explosives in her underware.They dont need uniforms!

Do you know throughout history people risked their very lives for freedom? Millions upon millions of people have fought oppression by their own. It is the only way to achieve freedom. Whole volumes by the thousands have been written about this. I am very sorry to say to not fight against tyranny because of fear ones hands will be chopped mocks the history of the world before us. Furthermore, why aid and abet such a silly myth as that one? No other people generation after generation experienced this phenomenon of not rising up upon ones own which only the Arab Islamic world fails to do. For this sociologists and historians literally scratch their scalps raw!

it is the worst mistake to make, to measure yourself with the eyes of your enemy. There is a difference between Hamas and Israel. And Mr. Olmert does very good job to articulate this difference to all civilized people. The effectiveness of Israeli Army on the other hand is not measured by his speeches. And to pin its woes on Mr. Olmert humanitarian appeal is... well... you find the word. Let's hope that in this new campaign, and as time passes by it looks more and more necessary, our Army will fight better then in the last one. They have to begin from suppressing anti - tank installation, which will result in a huge civilian toll overnight. Makes ever more important to bring entire world into our stable before the war begins. And note this, with recent attacks of Muslim extremists around the world, this attack will help to line up and get support from more people around the globe then anyone ever could imaging. So, do it now!

with a big fart!!! It's the Israelis that need to lose their blood lust gor the Goyim and start becoming civilized. Even those who support your killings in the "west", deep down inside hate you and what you stand for, and YOU KNOW IT! That'a amisreable state of existence if you asked me. You can surley do better!

you want a people occupied to lie down and do nothing? they have every right to fight the occupation, why dont you, olmert, say you are sorry for what the zionist have done for the last 60 yrs. any people going through what the palestinians have endured would be doing far worse to the israeli occupiers.