Olmart needs to take his act on the road

Olmart of Israel needs to take his dumb act on the road. He has perfected the role of the clueless liberal leader.  Olmart must have studied under Jimmy Carter.

For Olmart’s continuing performence as outlinded in this article by Caroline Glick, Olmart of Israel wins my Demented Delusion or Dumb Club of the week award. Congradulations!

Israel changes its mode of contending with Gaza on a near-daily basis. Sometimes it threatens to launch a ground campaign in Gaza to end the Palestinians’ mortar and rocket campaign against its citizens. Sometimes it attacks from the air and declares victory. Sometimes it threatens to stop supplying electricity and fuel to Gaza. Sometimes it threatens to stop its support for Gazan banks.

Then again, sometimes it renews its fuel and electricity supply to Gaza, lets trucks full of cash to enter Gaza from Israel, allows Gazans to receive free medical treatment in Israeli hospitals and permits them to work in Israel.

Internationally, sometimes Israel threatens to retake control over Gaza’s border with Egypt. And sometimes it asks Egypt or the UN to take control of the border. Sometimes it criticizes Egypt for enabling weapons and terrorists to move into Gaza. Sometimes it praises Egypt for being a force of stability.  

Sometimes the Olmert-Livni-Barak government supports Fatah’s reassertion of control over the border between Gaza and Egypt. Sometimes it admits that Fatah terrorists are full partners in the rocket and mortar campaign against Israel from Gaza; that Fatah security forces willingly integrated into Hamas’s army after Hamas seized power; and that anyway, Fatah has neither the will nor the means to defeat Hamas in Gaza or anywhere else.

In Gaza today as in Lebanon during 2006, the Olmert government’s strategic incoherence has led to public relations disasters. Today in Gaza, as in Lebanon in 2006, Israel’s inability to define its goals has made it unable to defend its actions. And so it is stands condemned as its citizens are held hostage to the vagaries of Palestinian mortars and rockets.

The Winograd commission properly noted the government’s failure to define what it was doing in Lebanon. But it did not explain the why the government failed. The source of the government’s failure in Lebanon 18 months ago and of its failure in Gaza today is its political commitment to the strategy of unilateral withdrawal from territory. Olmert’s Kadima party and Barak’s Labor party both have embraced this strategy. It is the centerpiece of their governing rationale.

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