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Article: Israel's Olmert Calls for Giving Up Arab East Jerusalem and Nearly All of West Bank; But as a lame-duck prime minister, he's not in a position to act on his words.(Ehud Olmert)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- October 2, 2008
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Byline: Larry Derfner
JERUSALEM--Lame-duck Prime Minister Ehud Olmert raised a lot of eyebrows by saying that in return for peace, Israel will have to give up virtually all the land it conquered in the 1967 Six Day War.
Apparently, there is a certain liberation that comes from having a political career in tatters over allegations of having pocketed envelopes of cash and other corrupt actions.
"What I'm telling you now has never been said by an Israeli leader before me," Olmert told journalists from Yediot Aharonot, the country's largest newspaper, in a lengthy pre-Rosh Hashana interview.
Technically, he's right; no previous Israeli ...