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May 28, 2008 Barak Calls on Olmert to ResignThe powerful Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak issued a statement calling on Prime Minister Olmert to step aside: Israel's defense minister said Wednesday he would use his considerable power to topple the fragile coalition government if Prime Minister Ehud Olmert does not step aside to face corruption allegations. Olmert faces a corruption investigation where it is alleged he took cash for his campaigns from among others, an American millionaire, in violation of election laws. This is clearly the most serious challenge to Olmert's rule since he took office. Barak is a power in the cabinet and could engineer the government's fall if he put his mind to it. If he were to succeed in toppling Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni would become a caretaker PM until elections were held. Some in Olmert's Kadima party think it would be better to have elections sooner rather than later given the resurrection in political fortunes of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Facing him now while the party would be united behind Livni could forestall his election. Olmert will have a hard time wiggling out of this one. |
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Man, I thought Obama was going to actually say something substantive I could endorse. Olmert should have been tarred and feathered and thrown into Gaza years ago. If he weren't a Lefty he would have been. He has brought Israel the worst of both the worlds of war and of peace. That he maintains his office at all is purely a tribute to the Chicago-esque politics of Zion and nothing to his abilities which are evident only in his Clintonian ability to outrun responsibility. Olmert is a coward, a buffoon and the nearest thing to a traitor to his nation one can entertain in public office. I'm fuzzy on Ehud but he would be an improvement.
Posted by: megapotamus | May 28, 2008 12:27 PM
I think "megapotamus" is confusing Ehud Barak with Barak Hussein Obama. I thought the same thing until I read the article. I could only hope that perhaps Obama was saying something that at last made sense. I hope they do get rid of Olmert. If they don't, his lack of leadership poses a grave danger for the survival of Western Civilization and even civilization itself.
Posted by: Jerry | May 28, 2008 05:47 PM
So Barak finally intends to do something about the grossly corrupt and inept government that he has been a part of? It's about time.
Israeli politicians make Chicago's look good by comparison.
Ehud Barak is not the man for the PM office. He was a capitulating weakling the last time he had the job, and he has been embarrassing as Defense Minister.
Livni is too much in the political bed with Olmert to get any approval from me. How are we to expect anything different from her than we have had from Olmert? Jews forced from their homes, a neutered IDF unable to defend the State, and terrorists thinking they can operate with immunity are the fruits of Kadima. No thanks.
Bibi Netanyahu is better, but he is hardly the savior Israel needs. He was ready to run away and reward terrorists with Hebron over a decade ago.
Israel will be better served to put all of these folks out to pasture.
Gideon Sa'ar, of Likud, looks as though he may be the guy for the job.
However, until Israel reforms its ridiculous government structure and has something more closely akin to a real representative government, where the politicians are actually held responsible by the electorate, I fear we are just going to see more of the same.
Posted by: Matthew-Jerusalem | May 29, 2008 02:08 AM