Olmert Gets Bold; the Occupation gets Bloody
September 30th, 2008 by Jason
Just as his political influence hits exactly zero, out-going Israeli PM Ehud Olmert comes out with bold and unprecedented opinions on the conflict he has ostensibly been trying to resolve these past few years. Olmert said Israel will have to give up “almost all” of the West Bank, and accept the division of Jerusalem, if it ever hopes to get a deal done.
Aluf Benn in Haaretz comments on Olmert’s “extraordinary epiphany“: “What an epiphany: In order to make peace with the Arabs, we must give them land. How come we never thought of that before? And where was Olmert when the Israeli left, and the whole international community, was repeatedly exhausting this claim?”
The Christian Science Monitor has a report on what Olmert called the “evil wind of extremism” sweeping through Israel. In the wake of a prominent anti-settlement professor being injured by a bomb outside his home, the report makes the connection between an upsurge in violence perpetrated by settlers against Palestinians in the territories, and the reemergence of Israeli-on-Israeli acts of violence.
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October 6th, 2008 at 9:10 am
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October 6th, 2008 at 9:10 am
[...] Christian Science Monitor writes on the political implications of Ehud Olmert’s unilateral peace negotiations with the media last week. “…[We] will withdraw from almost all the territories, if not all the territories. [...]