Ehud K. Olmert, please resign now!
This ad, sponsored by New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind, is appearing in many Anglo-Jewish weeklies this week.NEWS FROM
ASSEMBLYMAN DOV HIKIND
December 6, 2006 for immediate release
Contact: Charni Sochet
718-853-9616
917-873-9194
HIKIND LAUNCHES AD CAMPAIGN IMPLORING
ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER:
“OLMERT, PLEASE RESIGN. FOR THE SAKE OF ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE.”
“OLMERT IS ARROGANT, IRRESPONSIBLE, DEFEATIST & INCOMPETENT.”
FULL-PAGE ADS PLACED IN ANGLO-JEWISH WEEKLIES THROUGHOUT U.S. REACHING MILLIONS
“Albert Einstein is quoted as saying, ‘The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results,” said Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn). “Unfortunately, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has become an expert at failing over and over again and expecting success instead. He has failed in Lebanon, in Sderot, in Gaza. He is weak when he should be strong, demonstrating ineptitude and incompetence in the face of growing threats from Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, and Syria. Olmert is arrogant, refusing to acknowledge and apologize for the defeat in Lebanon.
“I know Ehud Olmert, and I like him as a person, but his tenure as prime minister has been one of abject failure. Israel cannot go on like this. These ads mark the launch of a campaign to save Olmert from himself – and to save Israel from Olmert.” The ads will appear in seven Anglo-Jewish weeklies in New York; New Jersey; Florida; Washington, DC; and California.
“Olmert is overwhelmed, failing to stop Kassam rocket fire on Sderot. Olmert’s desperation does not permit him to recognize the futility of disengagement, as he continues with his delusional fantasies about realignment. The West Bank cannot be forged into the terror breeding ground that Gaza has become.
“More than ever, Israel needs strong leadership. Olmert does not have what it takes: integrity, decisiveness, determination, vision, the strength and skill to lead Israel. Ehud, please resign, for the sake of Israel and the Jewish people.”
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:42 PM
2 Comments:
I am very uncomfortable with this. I don't care how weak Olmert makes himself, this can't help but weaken him more. (Pending an imminent indictment, there's no way he's going to resign.)
This ad was likely created to upset liberal and Reform American Jews who blindly support Olmert. I doubt the ad would havem uch effect in Israel itself.
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