{"id":672,"date":"2006-01-23T23:24:02","date_gmt":"2006-01-23T23:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/23\/remember-the-rich-and-the-famous-the-powerful-and-the-corrupt\/"},"modified":"2006-01-23T23:26:34","modified_gmt":"2006-01-23T23:26:34","slug":"remember-the-rich-and-the-famous-the-powerful-and-the-corrupt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/23\/remember-the-rich-and-the-famous-the-powerful-and-the-corrupt\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember &#8220;The Rich and The Famous?&#8221;: The Powerful and The Corrupt &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shilohmusings.blogspot.com\"><strong>Batya of Shilohmusings<\/strong><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/shilohmusings.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/powerful-and-corrupt-food-for-thought.html\"><strong>comments on the articles below;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1137605896735&#038;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\"><strong>Olmert Drops Slander Case against &#8216;Yediot&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Excerpts;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has dropped his charges of slander against Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot, it was reported Monday.&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Olmert first pressed charges against Yediot a number of years ago after they published information supposedly linking Olmert to the Greek Island affair.&#8221;<\/strong>  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Commentary;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s very interesting that PM Sharon and Olmert both allegedly have connections with one <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/pages\/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=386304\"><strong>David Appel<\/strong><\/a>, <strong>as apparently did the Sharon sons.<\/strong>           <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.israelnn.com\/news.php3?id=97139\"><strong>Omri Sharon Arrives in Court in Effort to Avoid Jail<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>And his character references claim; <\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1137605896168&#038;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\"><strong>&#8216;Omri Has a Giving Nature&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>How could it be that Olmert went from being 37th ranked on Likud&#8217;s Knesset list from last elections to becoming Deputy Prime Minister, next in succession should the sitting Prime Minister die in office or become incapacitated as Sharon has become?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shilohmusings.blogspot.com \"><strong>Batya&#8217;s<\/strong><\/a> <strong>not the only one who wonders;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Could Mr. Appel have been the one behind Olmert&#8217;s sudden rise and promotion?&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hat tip to <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/shilohmusings.blogspot.com \"><strong>Batya.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Batya of Shilohmusings comments on the articles below; Olmert Drops Slander Case against &#8216;Yediot&#8217; Excerpts; &#8220;Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has dropped his charges of slander against Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot, it was reported Monday.&#8221; &#8220;Olmert first pressed charges against Yediot a number of years ago after they published information supposedly linking Olmert to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}