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Peace Process

Olmert: We have no choice but to lose our land


By Stan Goodenough
November 11, 2008

Whoever forms Israel's government after the February 10 general election will have to accept the tearing away of many parts of Eretz Yisrael - the Jews' ancient homeland.

So said caretaker Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert speaking in the Knesset Monday,

"Any government will have to tell the truth, and that truth, unfortunately, will require us to tear away many parts of the homeland, in Judea, Samaria, Jerusalem and the Golan Heights.

"We must relinquish Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem, and return to that territory which comprised the State of Israel until 1967," he said.

Olmert's replacement as chair of the Kadima Party, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, was quick to reject his statement as "irrelevant," according to The Jerusalem Post.

"As the head of the Kadima party, I am obligated not to the outgoing words of Olmert, but to Kadima's platform, which I wrote and which I believe in," Livni told Army Radio.

Notwithstanding her election-motivated riposte, Livni has been working very closely with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as the Bush administration has bulldozed ahead with its efforts to see Jewish lands used for the creation of a State of Palestine.

The mantra of the Israeli leftists is that there is no choice, no other way to reach peace than to give away land.

This land-for-peace process has been discredited repeatedly since the Oslo Accords was signed in 1993.

Since then, every Israeli withdrawal - from Arab parts of Gaza, from Jericho and other towns throughout Samaria and Judea, from southern Lebanon and from the entire Gaza Strip - has always and only been followed by massive spikes in violence and terrorism.

Still, when Israelis say they have no choice, what they really mean is "the United States gives us no choice."

After every fresh outburst of terrorism since 1993, the US has pressured Israel to continue with the "peace process," because not to do so means to "give in to the enemies of peace."

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