No doubt Ehud Olmert has just upset AIPAC and the neocon/theocon crowd something awful:
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in an interview published on Monday that Israel must withdraw from nearly all the West Bank as well as East Jerusalem to attain peace with the Palestinians and that any occupied land it held onto would have to be exchanged for the same quantity of Israeli territory.
He also dismissed as "megalomania" any thought that Israel would or should attack Iran on its own to stop it from developing nuclear weapons, saying the international community and not Israel alone was charged with handling the issue.
In an unusually frank and soul-searching interview granted after he resigned to fight corruption charges — he remains interim prime minister until a new government is sworn in — Mr. Olmert discarded longstanding Israeli defense doctrine and called for radical new thinking in words that are sure to stir controversy as his expected successor, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, tries to build a coalition.
"What I am saying to you now has not been said by any Israeli leader before me," Mr. Olmert told Yediot Aharonot newspaper in the interview to mark the Jewish new year that runs from Monday night till Wednesday night. "The time has come to say these things." …
More at the link.
Peace in the Middle East won’t occur until the Second Coming.
I attended a lecture not long ago by a thoughtful, reasonable Christian Palestinian. He talked about how the Palestinians, Muslim and Christian, were kicked off their land in 1948 to form Israel. Those de-possessed people, their children, and their grandchildren, want their homes back.
Israel cannot attain peace by giving up land unless and until Israel gives up ALL its land and ceases to exist.