For a man facing yet another round of police questioning this week, as well as the prospect of a failing peace process, Ehud Olmert was remarkably relaxed in his office yesterday. The Israeli Prime Minister drew solace from the careers of two of his mentors, Tony Blair and Silvio Berlusconi, who have trodden this difficult path before him. "I look at the manner in which my friends Tony Blair and Silvio Berlusconi were in a similar situation. They were accused in similar ways, one of trading contributions for titles and one for trying to bribe a judge. They were cleared entirely and didn't stop taking care of the State," he said. Fraud investigators are to question Mr Olmert on Friday, while the Supreme Court rejected an appeal by his lawyers yesterday to block a deposition from an American Jewish businessman alleged to have handed him $500,000 (£250,000) in cash, much of it stuffed into envelopes.
For a man facing yet another round of police questioning this week, as well as the prospect of a failing peace process, Ehud Olmert was remarkably relaxed in his office yesterday.
The Israeli Prime Minister drew solace from the careers of two of his mentors, Tony Blair and Silvio Berlusconi, who have trodden this difficult path before him.
"I look at the manner in which my friends Tony Blair and Silvio Berlusconi were in a similar situation. They were accused in similar ways, one of trading contributions for titles and one for trying to bribe a judge. They were cleared entirely and didn't stop taking care of the State," he said.
Fraud investigators are to question Mr Olmert on Friday, while the Supreme Court rejected an appeal by his lawyers yesterday to block a deposition from an American Jewish businessman alleged to have handed him $500,000 (£250,000) in cash, much of it stuffed into envelopes.
That's a useful typing time saver. Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
And criminality is statesmanship.
A new truth is beauty revealed. Tho I think the Romans and the Borgias may have beaten the Bushes/Blairs/Berluconis/Olmerts to it. keep to the Fen Causeway