Olmert tells ministers to end talk of negotiations with Syria
Call comes after Peretz remarks on Syria; Dichter: IDF must rethink strategy on countering Qassam fire.
By Gideon Alon and The Associated PressPrime Minister Ehud Olmert on Wednesday called on his cabinet ministers to stop making statements about possible negotiations with Syria.
"There is one policy on the Syrian issue and there are no negotiations with Syria," Olmert told ministers, meeting participants said.
"Whoever doesn't agree doesn't have to be in the government and I am not willing to have arguments on the Syrian issue through the media," the prime minister said.
Olmert was apparently referring to comments by Defense Minister Amir Peretz, who said Tuesday during a meeting of the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that Israel should not rule out negotiations with Syria.
Olmert also criticized Sderot Mayor Eli Moyal, hinting that he had exploited the barrage of Qassam rockets fired at his town for political gain. According to Olmert, Sderot was granted full assistance by the state, and Moyal in turn attacked and slandered the government.
Public Security Minister Avi Dichter told the cabinet that the defense establishment has not provided the residents of Sderot and other communities near the Gaza Strip with a suitable response to the Qassam fire and must "adopt a harsher response."
Dichter is a resident of the southern city of Ashkelon, close to the border with the Gaza Strip and well within the range of Qassams. He said that there is no need to reoccupy the Gaza Strip, but Israel needs to mount operations that will deter the Palestinian Authority and Hamas from allowing Qassam fire to continue.
"We must strike where it's needed and extract a price. The government must adopt a new strategy in regard to Gaza and the ongoing Qassam fire," said the former head of the Shin Bet security service.
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Avi Dichter: Harsher response against Qassams. (Olivier Fitoussi / BauBau) |
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It has been always trying, but lately more, to live in the Middle East/Irsrael/Palestine.. I hear many dehumanizing incidents from the Palestinian people who have to cross into Israel. The Israeli personell on the check points is horrible. South African Tutu just blasted his nation for all the negative developments. There may be a need for Israelis and Palestinians to take an honest look at each others and their own mistakes and errors. Only then, they can renegotiate the coexistence. Europe and America supported Israel to get ahead. It was not a power of attorney to dehumanize the Palestinians. The Palestinian leaders had recieved huge support from the Arab and Iranian governments. It can not be a justification for violent anti-Israeli activities. Qassams are not justified. Only naive operators can imagine that it has a role in international relationships.
Stephen ,if someone shoots me and misses then I should dismiss it as "unfortunate", and since I wasn't hurt, I should just go on my merry way? If the bullet just grazes me, I should react the same way? If the bullet happens to blast my head apart, then according to your logic, then and only then, should I have an extreme reaction. I am sure you would love the Israelis to adopt "Stepehens Logic", but I am afraid they aren't fools and you aren't either - you wouldn't adopt your own logic and you know it.
First you need to actually READ the article. It doesn't recommend finding new and better ways to punish the Palestinians. The recommendation IS to find a way to stop the barrage of missiles launched from Gaza into Israeli towns and cities. Whatever you may or may not think of Israel - that's more that reasonable. If it were Britian - there would be little left of those among the launchers but ash!
the question is what else do they need - huh? the already have Limited food Limited water Limited power Limited fuel Limited transport routes No bridges. An average of 30 Pals a week in the Gaza ghetto killed by the IDF in the last two months. What more do you want? they cut themselves off prosperity. first arabs followed the jews to get some good jobs!!! yes, there's been a tsunami of arab immigration! then they did what the whole world is used to: trying and killing the jews to get their belongings for free and up to now they show their intentions with each quassam. they could share in to massive prosperity but instead they keep on their track of destruction, murder and attemted robbery. it is sad but one should get mideval on them as this is their language but you just wont find the personal within israel to do so. israel is in need of some arabs.
All the losers wants to negotiate their surrender . There is one thing Olmert was right about --they don`t need to be in the government . And so is he --Kadima is not a party , but politically enhanced Media outlet. It is time for them all to go , but than how doeas anybody is takes away the defeatist attitute of all involved in the knesset
If he does the coalition collapses and Olmerts with public approval close to the sewer level will have to call an election. He will be trumped and finished in politics. Thats why the village idiot Peretz opens his mouth and spits out comments, of whatever comes to his lobomized brain. So it is a synbiotic relationship between the Sahky PM, Olmert nad his ministers. They know that in the current political situation they can do and say waht they want and Olmert is powerless and paralyzed to act. Except if Peretz joins with Balada MKs and visits Bashir Assad in Damascuss. Even then a bet Olmert will just make a statement about it but want dismiss Peretz. Proverbial thought: Peretz makhizk Olmert ba baytzim.
The chemicals used to make fuel for Qassams are sugar and nitrate fertilizer, neither of which can be produced in Gaza, they are imported from or through Israel. Gaza has used HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of pounds of these for Qassam manufacture, not food production. Neither are essential for life. So...shut off 100% of import into Gaza of all forms of sugar and nitrate fertilizer, including by the UNWRA (especially sorbital supposedly for "diabetics", an especially good Qassam fuel). Legally justifiable, plus it makes them miserable. And it WILL stop the Qassam firing eventually, either because they run out of fuel, or because they decide to stop. And seal the damn border with Egypt once and for all, at least until Shalit is returned and Egypt cracks down on Sinai smuggling. Utter madness to allow it open under these conditions. Its not as if Olmert doesn't know all this already.
?The Copyrighters System? of the 23 members of the present government i n c l u d i n g its Prime Minister with their daily separate effusions does not disguise the missing agenda of the cabinet and definitely are no ?e r s a t z" for it and don?t enhance the cabinet?s public image.
Yes the Qassam attacks are unfortunate but the harm they do is tiny compared to the monstrously evil collective punishmebnt being waged by the IDF terror organisation against the entire Palestinian population. The whining from the people of Sderot should be ignored. They are free to live elsewhere. People in the Gaza Prison don't have that choice. They are not even allowed visit their capital city of East Jerusalem. The IDF is the most murderous terrorist organisation in the Middle East. This is why Israel must be boycotted
Never again, submission to extortion, fraud the false peace. FALSE TREATIES. we do not negotiate with the loathsome murederous terrorists whose agenda is to destroy Israel and IT'S JEWISH PEOPLE. WE MUST WORK IN AN EFFORT TO RESTORE AND REUNIFY ALL JEWISHLAND FROM THE EUPHRATES TO THE NILE.
Need to be punished - huh? All 1.4 million people who already have Limited food Limited water Limited power Limited fuel Limited transport routes No bridges. An average of 30 Pals a week in the Gaza ghetto killed by the IDF in the last two months. What more do you want?
They do nothing but complain and accuse Israel,instead of curbing terror from within their "poor people" environment
Not only does the general public disaprove of this big clown Peretz but he is even contradicting the PM and goverment policy. Its time for Peretz to go home and stay there.