Olmert: Yay or Drag-into-street-and-beat-with-stick?
Ari Shavit is getting a lot of play on the Israeli right for saying Olmert should resign. Of course, Shavit was also against the Disengagement, so the right's claim that "even that liberal Pinko says so" doesn't necessarily hold. Still, he makes some good points about some pretty notable mistakes Olmert made early in the war. Is that worthy of kicking him out? I'm not sure. I'd say probably no, but it should also depend on what happens with the cease-fire.
On the other hand (exchanges of opinion? Who needs that? Give me some good old Arutz-Sheva party-line!), we have Akiva Eldar, another longtime Haaretz columnist, saying Olmert should stay. Eldar cites Olmert's capacity to learn and correct his mistakes with relative quickness, saying this suggests an adaptability that will serve him well should he be given the chance to remain in power and apply the lessons learned here towards Syria and Iran. Eeep.
Oh, and while we're talking about all this, it turns out that these coup jokes may turn out to be less funny than we thought. Yikes.
Fedora-tip: FailedMessiah.
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