Jihadi Du Jour (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Istanbul Photo by: Michael.DK (mostly away) A fter the Arab bulldozer psychopath went on a murderous rampage in Jerusalem , Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said, "There is no way to fence-off the Arabs of east Jerusalem and every home of a potential terrorist." [ ynetnews ] Actually he's wrong. What would happen if Israel did precisely that? Would Iran threaten to wipe Israel off the map? Would the Arab...
English Webster (Free subscription) | yesterday
Is Israel doomed? Do Israeli journalists love "born-again doves" to a fault? Is PM Ehud Olmert rushing into reckless deals with Israel's enemies in a bid to keep himself out of the pokey? These are the questions debated by author Jeffrey Goldberg, Atlantic Monthly editor (and former NYT Jerusalem bureau chief) James Bennet, and Ari Shavit, a veteran columnist for Israel's Haaretz newspaper. The three...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jerusalem - Israeli police are to question Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for a third time Friday on suspicions that he illegally accepted tens or hundreds of thousands of US dollars from a US fundraiser. The questioning is to start at his Jerusalem resi...
The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is facing further questioning in an investigation of alleged financial fraud, ...
Doc's Talk (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hillel Fendel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will be questioned by police again this Friday regarding the cash-filled envelopes he received from Moshe Talansky. It will be the third time Olmert is being interrogated under caution in this case. Talansky, a resident of New York and avid supporter of Israeli and Jewish causes, testified in a special pre-trial court session several weeks ago that he gave then-Health...
The Last Amazon (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ynet News is reporting the Israeli Prime Minister is feeling rather encouraged: Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Friday that his family and supportive Israelis are a source of encouragement for him. "It’s not easy for my family, but they encourage me and I encourage them. I'm also basked by people in the (Kadima) party, and this is heartwarming," Olmert said in an interview broadcast on Jerusalem Radio....
Mail & Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Israeli police said on Tuesday they will question Prime Minister Ehud Olmert again this week over a corruption scandal that has rocked his government.
Smooth Stone (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Following the confirmation that Hamas media praised the terror attack in Jerusalem, eExcerpted from Accountability Of The Israeli Government : Yesterday afternoon, The Bulletin contacted the office of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert about the Israeli government's response to the Hamas: The Bulletin forwarded a statement to the Israeli court from two weeks ago in which the government of Israel took...
Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Professor Yechezkel Dror, a member of the Winograd Commission which investigated the government’s performance in the Second Lebanon War, stated over the weekend that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is not fit to lead, not in the next war and not towards achieving peace with Israel’s neighbors. While Prof. Winograd and other commission members remain silent, unwilling [...]
Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Despite efforts to exhibit an air of ‘business as usual,’ Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is indeed occupied with the police investigation against him involving Moshe Talansky. The parties are scheduled to return to the Jerusalem District Court on July 17th. In addition to the three-man legal team, the prime minister has now hired an outside public [...]
Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Addressing a Bar Ilan University forum on captive soldiers, Noam Shalit, the father of Gilad Shalit, told participants that the effort by the government towards negotiating a deal for his son’s release lacks determination and creativity. Mr. Shalit added that he told Prime Minister Ehud Olmert after his son spent two years in Hamas custody that [...]
Yourish.com (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
Ehud Olmert does the predictable, and ignores all Palestinian truce violations. Mortar fire? No problem. Kassam rockets? Not an issue. Sniper attacks on Israeli farmers? Hey, it’s just another day in Gaza Town. Palestinians opened fire Sunday afternoon at farmers working in fields near Kibbutz Nahal Oz in the Gaza vicinity. There were no reports of [...]
Doc's Talk (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
Hana Levi Julian Israel has warned Hamas that any delay on its part in releasing kidnapped IDF Cpl. Gilad Shalit could undermine the fragile “ceasefire” which began last month. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's spokesman Mark Regev was cautious in commenting on the matter, but said Sunday morning that unless the terrorist group fulfilled all the conditions of the understandings worked out with Egypt, the...
ISRAEL TRUTH TIMES (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
WHY DID OLMERT GO TO DIMONA - SECRETLY? by Emanuel A. Winston, a Middle East Analyst & Commentator The secret visit to Dimona by Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is very troubling.(1) I am reminded of when Shimon Peres was made Minister of Energy. I feared he would find a way to cripple the plant, slow down or even stop its function. Worse yet, I feared he would issue orders to halt putting the...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
JERUSALEM - A day after a Palestinian construction worker's deadly rampage in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday called for reviving the practice of demolishing the homes of attackers' families, and his chief deputy proposed cutting some Arab neighborhoods off from the rest of the city.
