This is already moot.

The Drama Queen Duo of Bush/Olmert has already issued a new series of threats to the Palestinians.

Film at 11....

Received in my e-mail box from my friend and colleague Aryeh Zelasko:

He writes: After all that has happened here, the real question is how anyone can trust any part of the official establishment at all. It has been the case from even prior to the establishment of the State that there is one set of laws for those in power and another for those out of power and a third set for those deemed as "enemies of the State." The major change that has occurred is that today the majority of Jews in Israel are now in the category of "enemies of the State" for one reason or another. Some because of their political beliefs, some because of their religious beliefs and some for the crime of living in the wrong part of the country.

Those who in recent years have expressed shock and outrage at the "sudden" brutality of the Israeli police have studiously ignored the generations long and systematic brutality the establishment has used against the Haredi community. They conveniently forget the hundreds of Sephardi, Yemenite and EDOT HAMIZRACH Rabbis and community leaders that were targeted for false charges and rotted away in Israeli jails over the years for the crime of demanding equality in our "worker's paradise." In short, we have never had the rule of law in the State of Israel. Israel has always been a "People's Republic" and the police the primary instrument of keeping the masses under control. Nothing has changed but the demographics.

Public Trust in Government Plummeting
2 Adar 5767, 20 February 07 12:30
by Hana Levi Julian

(IsraelNN.com) A new poll published by the Center for the Study of Crime Law and Society at the University of Haifa has revealed that only 14 percent of the Jewish Israeli public has complete trust in the Israel Police Force.

Professor Arye Rattner, director of the Center, said by contrast, that more than double that number, 38.5 percent of those surveyed expressed a total lack of trust in police.

The numbers have steadily dropped since 2002, when 50 percent of the public reported that they trusted the police force and only 13 percent expressed a lack of trust.

Within a year, the number of Israelis who expressed a high level of trust in police had dropped to 36 percent, although the number of those who said they did not trust law enforcement officers remained at 13 percent.

Prof. Rattner said the statistics are ominous signs that the social fabric of the Jewish State is being strained to a point that the damage may soon cause a rise in crime and social services statistics.

"The results of the survey point to a serious blow to the legitimacy the Israeli public grants - or doesn't grant - to the police," said Rattner. "This loss of legitimacy may lead to demonstrations of contempt for the rule of law and a decrease in the level of respect for and compliance with the law," he added.

Researchers questioned 1,625 Jewish Israelis over the past several weeks as part of a multi-year study that has tracked the level of trust in the country's police force since 2000.

Faith in a different sector of Jewish leadership has also dropped to record lows, according to a Geocartographia poll released this week.

An overwhelming majority of 74.4 percent of the respondents said they favor dissolving the Knesset, the highest figures since former Labor Prime Minister Ehud Barak was forced to call elections less than two years after being voted into office.

In a Geocartographia poll conducted in November 2006, the majority of respondents said they were in favor of the resignations of then-IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz and Labor Defense Minister Amir Peretz, who has remained in his post. More than half of the respondents - 53 percent - said that Kadima Prime Minster Ehud Olmert should resign his post or call new elections.

Within two months, Halutz resigned. Peretz has remained. Olmert has continued in his post, although the Prime Minister is currently under investigation on allegations of corruption in previous government posts. Former Justice Minister Chaim Ramon was forced to resign his post after being charged with sexual misconduct. Ramon was later convicted.

Recent polls have showed that if elections were held today, the Kadima party would shrink to a bare few seats in the Knesset.
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Liam,

Why am I sending this for you to read? It backs up my assertion that the giant Israeli goliath you keep accusing of all sorts of crimes against humanity is collapsing from its own rot from the inside - just as I've been telling you since I got to this website a year ago.

Marthe, who commented above, believes that the state should lose its statehood. What she believes should happen will happen, only not in the way that she (or you) thinks will happen.

You're so busy shedding tears for the "poor Palestinians" that you do not see what is happening here at all.

Of course, if that is what your real editors are paying you to write for their audience, what can I say? Pass the b;indfolds out, folks, and let's all read another Bailey "blue light" special!