Olmert praises Ben Gurion's defeatism

Commemorating the infamous 1947 UN declaration which halved the Jewish state to accommodate the Arabs after Britain already took 3/4 of Jewish land to establish a tribal kingdom of Jordan, Olmert cited Ben Gurion’s decision to accept the partition as a precedent for himself doing the same. Ben Gurion, however, acted when Israeli community was extremely weak and fully depended on foreign approval. Modern Israel, a fourth-strongest military power in the world, doesn’t need to retreat into the Auschwitz borders and abandon Judea to Arab enemies.