Wednesday, April 1, 2009

The Slow Demise of Ehud Olmert

A Politician Remembered for Little But Scandal

By JONATHAN COOK
CounterPunch

Nazareth.
"......Palestinians, he predicted, would realise that they could destroy Israel not through armed resistance but by waging a “powerful struggle” for “one-man, one-vote”.

This assessment provided the rationale for Sharon’s disengagement from Gaza in Aug 2005, which required a small territorial sacrifice in return for Israel’s being able to claim it had divested itself of responsibility for nearly one-third of the Palestinians under its rule. Importantly, the move postponed the apartheid analogy......"

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