Yossi Klein Halevi on the Nine Lives of Ehud Olmert
Posted on The New Republic blog, contributing editor Yossi Kein Halevi gives his opinion about Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s decision to resign his post after his Kadima party elects a new leader in September.
Writes Halevi: “Like a parody of Jewish survival, Olmert has persisted, indestructible.”
Citing a long list of mistakes and scandals, Halevi writes:”Perhaps Olmert’s greatest offense was …diverting our attention from the imminent nuclearization of Iran and the growing power of Hezbollah and Hamas. Instead of focusing on Israel’s survival, we have been preoccupied with the melodrama of Olmert’s survival.”
And “[n]ow comes the hard work of restoring sanity to Israeli politics.”
/cijainfo
@CIJAinfo