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United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (photo: Matty Stern/state department)
Olmert acquitted on major criminal charges
JERUSALEM – Ehud Olmert, a former Israeli Prime Minister, has been acquitted of criminal charges in two out of out three cases in a rare triple trial. Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert emerged from the Jerusalem District Court on Wednesday morning promising this will not be the last the public hears from him. With…
By Roee Ruttenberg July 9, 2012
Did Israel offer the Palestinians a “great” deal?
Thomas Friedman is wrong: the “two-state” deal offered to Palestinian President Abbas by former Israeli Prime Minister Olmert was anything but “great” Thomas Friedman is a hack. But he is an influential hack. So maybe it is worthwhile rebutting a familiar claim he made in his recent column. Friedman is very angry at Netanyahu, for rebuffing…
By Roi Maor December 12, 2010
Front page Maariv 6 October: reliving the Yom Kippur War
Between the Lines (6 Oct): Yesterday’s news today & the real news
Headlines: Yesterday’s new today > This is a news roundup, but do the newspapers necessarily publish news? This is yet another day when the Yom Kippur War protocols capture the headlines, without revealing anything significant about that war that we didn’t already know. Israel was caught by surprise despite sufficient intelligence? Jordan was a secret…
By Roi Maor October 6, 2010
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