Olmert needs to read between his own lines

Acting PM says will withdraw regardless, but then makes demands

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By Ryan Jones
January 24, 2006

Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's speech closing the 6th annual Herzliya Conference Tuesday evening left this writer scratching his head, and must have further widened the smiles that have been on the face of "Palestinian"? terrorists since Israel first announced its policy of "disengagement"? two years ago.

Olmert waxed eloquent about how Israel had no choice but to surrender large swaths of the Jews' biblical heartland in Judea and Samaria, and that while he would prefer to do so within the framework of an agreement with the Palestinian Arabs, he would not hesitate to withdraw unilaterally if a true peace partner failed to emerge.

He stated that above all - above ending the scourge of anti-Jewish terrorism, above demanding an end to the hate-fill indoctrination of "Palestinian"? children, and above insisting the Arab world accept the Jewish state's sovereignty - above all this, Israel's top priority must be setting final and permanent borders.

And if a one-sided withdrawal is the only way to accomplish that suddenly urgent goal, then so be it.

Olmert then turned around and said it would be a "historic mistake to let the Palestinians escape their commitment to dismantle the terror groups,"? and stressed they would only receive independence if they put a complete halt to all attacks on Israeli Jews.

Mr. Olmert, hello? You know all that land you are going to give them, no matter what? The "Palestinians"? are pretty much going to do whatever they like on it, just as they are doing in Gaza right now.

Failing to read between someone else's lines is one thing, but for a national leader to fail to read between his own lines has got to raise some eyebrows - and, again, put smiles on the faces of that nation's enemies.

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