Submitted by Alan, Feb 27, 2008 18:13

The real culprit in the plight of Sderot, and of the State of Israel in general, is Prime Minister Olmert but his name appears nowhere in your editorial. He has held the State of Israel hostage to his self-absorbed and largely futile machinations since his appointment to office on the heels of former Prime Minister Sharon's catastrophic medical collapse. Ohlmert ignored the build up of rockets in both the north and south until it was too late. He neglected both the northern and southern frontiers and its largely impoverished communities, while concentrating his economic prosperity strategems on Israel's Tel Aviv-based political and cultural elite. When his bid to eliminate Hezbollah failed due, largely, to his negligent leadership, he appointed a commision which found everyone but himself sufficiently culpable to require resignation. He has refused to budge despite frequent outcries for his resignation, using all his lawyerly wiles, and in the meantime the State of Israel, and most especially communities like Sderot, are going straight to hell. What Israel now needs desperately --what she has always needed and will continue to need--is a Zionist leader and not a late-stage postmodern hypercapitalist opportunist like Olmert.

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