Olmert: We'll fight on until attacks end, soldiers returned

bemildred

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Mon Jul-17-06 03:33 PM
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Olmert: We'll fight on until attacks end, soldiers returned

"Citizens of Israel, there are moments in the life of a nation, when it is compelled to look directly into the face of reality and say: no more," he said.

"And I say to everyone: no more. Israel will not be held hostage - not by terror gangs or by a terrorist authority or by any sovereign state,"

"There is nothing we want more than peace on all of our borders," Olmert told the Knesset. But he said, "Israel will not agree to live with rockets fired on its citizens, he added. "Only a nation that can protect its freedom deserves it," he stated.

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Olmert said that Israel held the Lebanese government responsible for the abductions of IDF soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev last Wednesday, even if the government itself was not directly behind the kidnappings.

Haaretz

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TomClash

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Mon Jul-17-06 03:35 PM
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1. Can I ask a question?

Where exactly are those borders?

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Mon Jul-17-06 03:47 PM
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2. what is the war against terror?

good questions.

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Mon Jul-17-06 04:15 PM
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3. Here is your answer, from the Kadima platform, itself.

Again, from the Kadima Party platform, emphasis mine:

� The Jewish people have a national and historic right to the Land of Israel in its entirety.
� The overall objective � a sovereign Jewish and democratic state that is a secure national home for the Jewish people � is the maintenance of a solid Jewish majority within the State of Israel.
� The balance between allowing Jews to fulfill their historic right to live anywhere in the Land of Israel and maintaining the continued existence of Israel as the national Jewish home necessitates a choice that requires territorial compromise.
� Conceding parts of the Land of Israel is not an ideological concession but a realization of the ideology guaranteeing the existence of the Jewish and democratic state in the Land of Israel.
� Determination of the State of Israel�s permanent borders within a peace agreement will ensure the country�s national and security interests.

What this means is that the Government of Israel (GOI) considers all of biblical Israel to be Israel, not its current borders. Also, according to the above, the Palestinians are granted, magnanimously, access to Israeli land. Gaza, the West Bank- those are Israeli lands according to the statement above. Should the Arab minority ever grow to threaten the Jewish majority in Israel it is arguable that under the above ideology, transfer of some portion of the Arabs in Israel would take place to Gaza or the West Bank. Also under the ideology defined above if Arabs were to, ahem, no-longer exist or exist as a sizable percentage in Israel then Israel would be free to reapportion the land they have set aside as concessions.

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Tom Joad

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Mon Jul-17-06 06:57 PM
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5. In other words, olmert vows to kill and slaughter some more.

How many kids did he kill today?

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