Olmert: 'But there are giants in the land'

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By Stan Goodenough
July 23, 2007

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert tried Friday to explain the reasons why the Jewish people have "no choice" but to surrender the cradle of their nationhood and the land promised to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to the Muslim Arabs for the creation of a Palestinian State.

Anyone who believes that Israel can maintain its current hold on all Judea and Samaria is "living in a dream," he insisted. Israel "needs to withdraw."

In an apparent effort to sweeten the pill, Olmert told a group of Jezreel Valley farmers Israel would not withdraw unilaterally as it did from the Gaza Strip in 2005.

The abandonment of any more land to the Arabs would be negotiated step-by-step with the terrorist Palestinian Authority, he pledged.

Olmert further tried to persuade his audience as to the "necessity" of taking these steps.

"Everyone understands that the State of Israel can't exist without a guarantee of a Jewish majority," he said.

In order "to ensure" this majority Israel would have to make "tough decisions."

Israeli leftists have successfully used this specter of the "demographic bomb" to buttress their arguments in favor of land surrender. The findings of other groups which dispute this demographic threat and show that Israel does not need to fear being overrun by Arabs have been disregarded or pooh-poohed.

Olmert's appeasement approach is shared by a seeming majority of Israelis who - despite the miracle of their nation's survival against mountainous odds - do not believe God can save them out of their predicament, or that He will fight their battles for them if they would only put their trust in Him.

Only a minority of Jews trust God to deliver them. Most of these are settlers - that group of Jews most hated and opposed by the world.

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