That’s what I call a strong negotiating position!

If the earlier item about Tzipi Livni was not enough to convince you that the current leadership of Israel is moronic, look at this Reuters story (no link):

Palestinian state crucial for Israel, Olmert says

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said after peace talks in Washington that failure to negotiate a two-state solution with the Palestinians could threaten Israel’s long-term survival.

A day after Israel and the Palestinians formally relaunched negotiations, Olmert’s comments appeared in Thursday’s Haaretz newspaper on the 60th anniversary of the passing of a U.N. resolution to partition British-run Palestine between Jews and Arabs—a two-state solution that still eludes them.

“If the day comes when the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights … then, as soon as that happens, the state of Israel is finished,” Olmert said….

He’s dealing with people whose main aim in life is to destroy Israel, and they want to use a Palestinian state as step toward that end, and he tells them publicly, even before the negotiations begin, that Israel itself requires for its own survival a Palestinian state, that Israel has no choice but to give the Palestinians a state.

It is a disgrace to the Israelis that they have allowed this pathetic fool to be the head of their government for the last two years.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at November 29, 2007 01:44 PM | Send