5
Shared Docs
3
Same-Page
8 / 5
Mentions
ed to go?” I told him and he willingly agreed to drive us there. As I began to get into his car, a cab driver pulled over and said, “I'll take them.” Olmert replied, “No, no, it’Il be my pleasure.” The cab driver pulled his car in front of Olmert’s, blocking it and shouting, “I don’t try to run Jerusalem,
or the weekend. It looked like we might be late for our appointment with the Prime Minister. Suddenly a car pulled up. It was the mayor of Jerusalem, Ehud Olmert, whom I knew. He rolled down his window and shouted, “Alan, you’ll never get a cab on a Friday afternoon. Where do you need to go?” I told him and he
my of neutral and universal human rights. It would be an uphill fight because the primary speaker invited to address the second Durban Conference was Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Holocaust-denying President of Iran. I worked with several genuine human rights organizations in an effort to shame the Human Right
ls as he'd expected. This is not the first time the Israelis have launched a war for electoral gain. Shimon Peres did it to Lebanon in 1996 and the Olmert-Livni-Barak alliance did it to Gaza in 2008. What is important here is the immoral and short- sighted stance of the European and US governments; the
er the body and said, "I'll join you soon, God willing," recalled a cousin who spoke on the condition that he be identified only by his first name, Mahmoud. His wish to die fighting and become a martyr — and the honor it would bring in his community — was fulfilled Saturday morning at 7:30, though the
chil- dren — when Gaza is run by Hamas terrorists dedicated to permanent war with Israel and when Mahmoud Abbas, having turned down every one of Ehud Olmert's peace offers, brazenly declares that he is in a waiting mode — waiting for Hanky; to be- come moderate and for Isaacl to cave — before hell do
ds that are making problems.' The Washingtoe Ant TEHRAN - A defiant Mir Hossein Mousavi, koding an opposi- tion movement against President Mahmoud Ah- madinejad, called on his supporters Sunday to con- tinue protests against the outcome of the election in which Ahmadinejad was proclaimed the
15 May 2007 30 May 2007 10 June 2007 UN Security Council Resolution 1559 (Lebanon). Yasir Arafat dies. The Executive Committee of the PLO elects Mahmoud Abbas as its leader. Agreement between Egypt and Israel on Qualifying Industrial Zones. Mahmoud Abbas elected President of the Palestinian Authorit
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023158 →nese leaders brokered by Qatar. 21 May 2008 Israel and Syria announce holding indirect talks through Turkish mediation. 30 July 2008 Prime Minister Olmert announces he is not seeking re-election. 15 October 2008 Establishment of diplomatic relations between Syria and Lebanon. 16 December 2008 Last mee
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023159 →ccords of December 2003 led by PLO official Yasser Abed Rabbo and former Israeli Minister Yossi Beilin. The stalemate in the process continued until Ehud Olmert’s election as Prime Minister in 2006. Through intense negotiations facilitated by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her team, the parties came
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023168 →ersion of Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, “Mr. Nyet,” a man who will be bypassed by history. Here is what Netanyahu’s immediate predecessor, Ehud Olmert, said in a widely reported speech to the Israeli Knesset in 2008: “We must give up Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem and return to the core of the terr
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023518 →nd return to the core of the territory that is the State of Israel prior to 1967, with minor corrections dictated by the reality created since then.” Olmert, a man with a reputation as a hard-liner, said that meant Israel would keep about 6 percent of the West Bank — the major settlements — and give up la
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023518 →ignore an Iranian leader who labels the country “a fake regime” that ought to “be wiped off the face of the Earth?” How should it react to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s plans for a second Holocaust, even as he denies that the first one ever happened? Millions of Israelis are descendants of those who die
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023543 →Entities connected to both Ehud Olmert and Mahmoud

Barack Obama
PERSON
Benjamin Netanyahu
PERSON
Jerusalem
LOCATION
George W. Bush
PERSON
Bashar al-Assad
PERSON
Ehud Barak
PERSON
Bill Clinton
PERSON
Lebanon
LOCATION
Tehran
LOCATION
United States
LOCATION
West Bank
LOCATION
Fatah
ORGANIZATION
Hosni Mubarak
PERSON
Middle East
LOCATION
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
Damascus
LOCATION
Mahmoud Abbas
PERSON
Hillary Clinton
PERSONthe Gaza Strip
LOCATION
Cairo
LOCATION