Jaw-dropping statement of the day
With Prime Minister Ehud K. Olmert canceling the traditional Independence Day media interviews due to his criminal problems, Haaretz turned to space cadet President Shimon Peres to fill the space. Get a load of this quote: "Although in '98 everything seemed dark because of Rabin's murder [Rabin was murdered in '95 and Peres lost an election to Netanyahu in '96. I have no idea if he really meant to say '98. CiJ], I believed we could still move the peace process ahead more quickly. I did not think we'd have so many problems. I believed the separation between the West Bank and Gaza would make things easier, not harder. I did not imagine that we would leave Gaza and they would fire Qassams from there; I did not imagine that Hamas would show so strongly in the elections.If Peres really didn't imagine that Israel would leave Gaza and it would become a base for firing Kassam rockets, he didn't read a single IDF assessment in the run-up to the expulsion of Gaza's Jews in the summer of 1995. Kassams were being fired long before 2005 at Sderot and at the Jewish towns in Gaza. Once the 'Palestinians' saw their 'success' in removing the Jews from Gaza in 2005, what ever made Peres or anyone else believe they would suddenly stop at that?
For some mea culpas on the expulsion of the Jews from Gaza, go here.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:15 AM
5 Comments:
I never imagined that Shimon Peres would say he never imagined all these things could have happened.
/sarc
Shy Guy,
I used to refer to him as Israel's first astronaut (because his feet are never attached to the ground) until the Ilan Ramon tragedy happened.
You can still more appropriately call him "cosmonaut".
Only a country like Israel would elect someone like Peres President who has the blood of thousands of Jews on his head and who has never demonstrated remorse for all the disastrous consequences his advocacy of Oslo and its stepchildren have inflicted upon the country.
He certainly wasn't in Gaza like I was during and after the Expulsion when Hamas flags were flying along the fences of the destroyed Jewish communities and mortars were being launched.
I guess he never saw the faces of some of the scared soldiers who, until then, had never heard a shell fall before, and the only place they could think of where to run and hide, was the house they were about to demolish.
If he had seen that, he still wouldn't have known that Hamas was taking over and was going to be shooting a lot more, because he chose to ignore every other warning and attack until that point.
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