Why the hell is Ehud Olmert still Prime Minister?

[Kaine for Senate '18]

He has a history of surviving scandals.  That said, he won't be Prime Minister in January of next year.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Israel for you.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

I think Olmert will hold on until after our elections, and then resign.

As to who will replace him, I have no idea.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Right now, I would expect Tzipi Livni to become PM.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Right now, I would expect Tzipi Livni to become PM.

Well, current polls show Bibi beating Livni (or anyone else).

I haven't seen any polls.  Where'd you find them?

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Olmert should be tried and executed for crimes against humanity along with the rest of the Knesset and every officer in Israel's military.

Seriously?

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Yep 100% seriously. They condone imperialism of the worst and most brutal kind by stealing 3/4 of Palestine. I see no efforts to integrate or assimilate the palestinians beyond a few collaborators(the druze/bedouin). However, I see many efforts to exclude, intimidate and control. Basically, they want to intimidate the surviving palestinians into becoming a cowed serf class who'll work gratefully for their masters.

Bulls**t.  Countries have been attacking Israel since day 1; the Palestinians went to war rather than take what was given to them, and it's their own damn fault they lost their land.  Israel has tried to integrate them, and it is has worked, except for the lunatics who want to wipe Israel off the map.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

I'll discuss point 4: why should Israel dismantle its WMD's and get rid of the draft when it will be attacked as soon it does so?  The other nations around Israel want to destroy it, and Israel needs to protect itself.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

So you're saying it's okay for Israel to have WMD but not arab nations. Care to explain why in public? Is it race? Religion?

It's the fact that if Iran has a WMD, then they will use it to destroy Israel.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

And? Israel would be paying the price for it's decades of militarism. Actions have consequences.

Israel's militarism comes from the fact that the countries surrounding it attack it almost constantly.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Because Israel represses the Palestinians and attempts to intimidate it's neighbors.

Even when it was first founded, and its neighbors attacked it immediately?

[Kaine for Senate '18]

They were trying to chase out the palestinians and blatantly ignore partition so yes.

Israel accepted partition, it was the Palestinians who got greedy, lost, and whined about it.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Calling wanting to not be expelled from their homes greedy? Wow. Now that's an epic example of being biased.

They weren't being expelled.  They refused to let Israel have anything, and so they went to war and lost.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

The land belonged to the British, who gave it to the UN; the UN split it up, and the Arabs didn't like what they got, so they went to war and lost; that's their problem.