As an Israeli I am signing because Israel and the United States are the two countries were Jewish dissidence is under attack.
Olmert had probably opportunist reasons to say these things which the peace movement has been saying all the time. He needed a smokescreen to hide the very humiliating end of his prime ministership and he hardly could have created a similar effect by suddenly leaning to the right. Still, in spite of the depressing context, he has left us now with something to quote, and - he said these things as acting prime minister, making it hard on his successor to ignore this altogether.
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