Olmert Channels Mary Martin

When the sky is a bright canary yellow
I forget every cloud I’ve ever seen
So they call me a cockeyed optimist—immature and incurably green
From South Pacific

Based on Eric Trager's post at Contentions, it appears that Ehud Olmert is indeed channeling Mary Martin:

Credit Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert with one thing: he’s probably the only world leader more publicly optimistic about Israeli-Palestinian peace prospects than George W. Bush. Yesterday, Olmert announced that Israel would begin negotiating final borders with the Palestinians, the ongoing crisis in Gaza notwithstanding. “On this issue there is a set of previous understandings and international backing,” Olmert said, raising expectations in the Israeli press for an “easy” solution.

Of course, Olmert is delusional—Israeli-Palestinian consensus on border issues is light years away.

Read the whole thing.
Actually, there is another song from South Pacific that is more apropos of what Israel is facing:

You've got to be taught
To hate and fear,
You've got to be taught
From year to year,
It's got to be drummed
In your dear little ear
You've got to be carefully taught.

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