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Commentary;
Will the current round of investigations of corruption alleged against prime minister Ehud Olmert result in his having to resign or in his government’s end?
Or will the man who perfected into a political science teflon and etrogization, which first originated in an obvious way in the Sharon prime ministership with the expulsion of Jews from Gush Katif, once again evade resignation and prosecution by virtue of devastating diplomatic actions and appeasements jeopardizing and endangering both the Jewish people and our land?
Here is a recent post from Barak of IRIS on the current Olmert investigations.
And here are a few of the recent news posts relating to these investigations;
‘Gag Order on PM’s Investigation to be Partially Lifted’, by Yaakov Lapin (Jerusalem Post)
Olmert Scandal Will “Shake The Country”, by Hillel Fendel (Israel National News)
Olmert’s Former Bureau Chief Questioned by Police [2nd Time in Less Than Week], by Efrat Weiss (Ynet)
Olmert Aide Under House Arrest, by Gil Ronen (Israel National News)
Analyze This: For Livni and Barak, Time to Look Past Olmert, by Calev Ben-David (Jerusalem Post)
Peace Talks to Freeze Until PM Cleared, by Herb Keinon and Khaled Abu Toameh (Jerusalem Post)
There was a time in Israel’s history, such as with former prime minister Yitzchak Rabin’s foreign bank accounts, when mere disclosure of wrong-doing was sufficient to trigger a sense of shame and was sufficient for a prime minister to resign, of his own volition.
This author opins that, due to the recent history of pending investigations against the current prime minister and the tendency of heinous charges to slide of his back like grease off of a teflon pot, this blog will not engage in further discussion of the corruption charges and their implications for drastic changes in Israel’s governance as such discussion is hot air and conjecture until such time as there is genuine promise of such change and until such time as Ehud Olmert and his government ilk are “Outa here!” MB