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Peace Process

Olmert makes mad dash for Palestinian state


By Stan Goodenough
November 26, 2008

Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Tuesday he has asked US President George W. Bush to pressure PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas into accepting a plan that will see a State of Palestine established on the Jews' historic homeland before the end of the year.

Olmert did not say how the American leader responded.

While Israeli leaders have demanded that their disgraced prime minister (under police investigation for corruption) not make any far-reaching decisions before he steps down after general elections next February, Olmert insisted that he would do continue to use his authority regardless.

According to Ha'aretz, Olmert said he told Bush his proposal to Abbas was more far-reaching than any previous offer the "Palestinians" have received from Israel. Time was pressing because the American administration and Israeli government would soon be replaced, and Abbas is due to complete his term on January 9.

"We have reached the moment of decision, and now we need to decide. We don't need months for that," he said. "The decision is tough, but I am ready to make it and hope that the other side will make it."

Virtually every nation on earth supports the creation of an Arab state on the Jews' land. Successive Israeli governments have tried to resist the global pressure to surrender their nation's patrimony, but increasingly leftist Israeli leaders have embraced the world's "two state solution" being spearheaded by Bush.

The risks to Israel's existence posed by this dismemberment of its land and the establishment on the high ground of Judea and Samaria of a belligerent Islamic state do not appear to give these Israeli leaders or their counterparts in the United Nations pause.

Seeing the securing of a "Palestinian"-Israeli peace agreement as an ultimate prize, leaders like Bush and Olmert have been plowing ahead regardless.

For them, none of the danger flags raised by the prospect of Palestine appear worth noting.

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