LET'S JUST SHIP THE GUNS AND BOMBS DIRECTLY TO HAMAS...AND CUT OUT THE MIDDLE MAN!!

Get ready...there's going to be A LOT more weeping at the Wall before the government of Israel will be ready to do its damn job.



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This is why Israel is going to lose MANY more innocents before they will wake up...The PM's stupidity is just spine-chilling:

Olmert Assails Hamas and Vows Cooperation With Abbas
By STEVEN ERLANGER and ISABEL KERSHNER

JERUSALEM, June 16 —Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel, deploring the “brutality of the Palestinians a gainst their own people,” said that Israel would “cooperate fully” with a new government installed by the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas.

A Fatah government, shorn of Hamas, “can be a new opening,” Mr. Olmert said, suggesting that Israel would hand over $562 million in withheld tax and customs duties to help Fatah turn the West Bank into a model for the Palestinian future, even if Gaza was lost to extremism with last week’s takeover of the territory by Hamas.

“I am willing to cooperate with Abu Mazen if there will not be a Hamas government and meet all my commitments, including all the financial commitments, no question about it,” Mr. Olmert said, using a name by which Mr. Abbas is known. “To give it to a Hamas government is reckless. To give it to a Fatah government is an opportunity.”

[YEAH, AN OPPORTUNITY TO CHANNEL MONEY & WEAPONS TO HAMAS]

After the Hamas conquest and the failure of the Palestinian national unity government negotiated in March, Mr. Olmert said: “I suggest we look at things in a much more realistic manner and with less self-deceit.

[HOW MUCH SELF-DECEIT WOULD HE RECOMMEND? WHAT IS THE OPTIMAL DOSE?]

A democracy which is based on terror and on brutal killing of opponents is not a democracy. Even if it received more votes, in a way that is totally now irrelevant to the realities of life of that population.”
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Mr. Olmert also implicitly criticized the American policy of funneling arms to Mr. Abbas’s Presidential Guard in Gaza, one of the many elite Fatah forces that fought badly in Gaza, if at all.

“I look at the Fatah fighting now in Gaza, and I don’t see any of the commanders in the area,” he said. “Where have they been? Where have they disappeared? Why are they not in Gaza? How can one expect that the Fatah will prevail if all their commanders are away outside the region altogether or in the West Bank?” Everyone wants to “help the moderates and provide them with weapons,” he said. “But it’s another thing to ask yourself, if I’m going to give weapons and these weapons are going to be taken by Hamas, what am I doing?”

[WELL, YEAAAAAHHHH, DUHHHH!!! HELLOOOOO!! HAVE YOU READ ANY NEWSPAPERS THE PAST WEEK?]

Asked if the Hamas victory in Gaza marked the failure of the American and Israeli policy to isolate Hamas diplomatically and financially and boost Fatah through aid and weapons, Mr. Olmert said that “this policy was never exercised to the fullest.” Appearing annoyed, he said, “Hamas was not really ever isolated entirely.”

[NOW HE TELLS US!!]

Palestinian leaders of Fatah, he said, collaborated with Hamas: “To sit in the back rooms and make all the deals with Hamas and then go outside and say, we are by ourselves, we are not part of it — it doesn’t work. What it did was help create a stronger basis for Hamas.”

[SO WHAT WAS THAT YOU JUST SAID ABOUT GIVING THE FATAHNIKS $562 MILLION? WHY NOT JUST SHIP IT DIRECTLY TO HAMAS, AND CUT OUT THE MIDDLE MAN??!!]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/17/world/middleeast/17olmert.html?_r=1&ex=1339732800&en=89a0f71a21fcce66&e&oref=slogin