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Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert is seen in the court room as he waits for the judges
at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on Tuesday.
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Israel’s withdrawal from the Ga-
za Strip in 2005.
He became prime minister in
January 2006 after then-Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon suffered a
debilitating stroke — and subse-
quently led their newly formed
Kadima Party to victory in par-
liamentary elections on a plat-
form of pushing further peace
moves with the Palestinians.
In a recent interview broad-
cast on Channel 10 TV, Olmert
said his political transformation
began while he was mayor of Je-
rusalem during the 1990s and
early 2000s. He said the wide
gaps between the city’s Jewish
and Arab neighborhoods led
him to conclude that the contin-
ued occupation of millions of
Palestinians was unsustainable.
A gifted orator, Olmert broke
a series of taboos while in office
— warning that Israel could be-
come like apartheid South Afri-
ca if it continued its occupation
of the Palestinians and express-
ing readiness to relinquish con-
trol of parts of the holy city of Je-
rusalem under a peace deal.
He led his government to the
Annapolis peace conference in
November 2007 — launching
more than a year of ambitious,
but unsuccessful U.S.-brokered
peace talks with the Palestin-
ians. Olmert enjoyed a warm re-
lationship with then-President
George W. Bush.
Olmert has said he made un-
precedented concessions to the
Palestinians during those talks
— including a near-total with-
drawal from the West Bank and
an offer to place Jerusalem’s Old
City under international control
— and was close to reaching an
agreement at the time of his res-
ignation.
In last month’s TV interview,
Olmert described presenting his
offer to Palestinian President
Mahmoud Abbas on Sept. 16,
2008. At the time, Olmert was
enveloped in scandal and had al-
ready announced his intention
to step down, but elections were
still some five months away.
“I told him, ‘Remember my
words, it will be 50 years before
there will be another Israeli
prime minister that will offer
you what I am offering you now.
Don’t miss this opportunity,
Olmert said.
In the same documentary,
Abbas confirmed Olmert’s offer.
But he said Israeli leader pres-
sured him to sign the deal with-
out allowing him to study a pro-
posed map, and that the offer
did not adequately resolve the
fate of millions of Palestinian
refugees.
Still, he described the talks as
serious and estimated a deal
could have been wrapped up in
“four to five months” had Ol-
mert not been engulfed in his le-
gal problems.
Olmert’s departure cleared
the way for the election of Net-
anyahu, and subsequent Mid-
east peace efforts have failed to
get off the ground. Netanyahu
rejects Olmert’s territorial con-
cessions, and with gaps so wide,
the Palestinians say there is no
point in resuming talks.
By Josef Federman
Associated Press
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Former
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert,
who claimed to be on the cusp of
a historic peace deal with the
Palestinians just a few years ago,
now is set to become the first Is-
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the Supreme Court upheld a
bribery conviction against him
Tuesday.
The decision capped a seven-
year legal saga that severely un-
dermined the last serious round
of peace talks and propelled
hard-line Prime Minister Benja-
min Netanyahu to power.
In some ways, Tuesday’s deci-
sion was a success for Olmert.
The five-judge panel dismissed
the most serious bribery charge
against him and reduced his
original prison sentence from six
years down to 18 months. He is
set to report to prison on Feb. 15.
“A stone has been lifted from
my heart,” a visibly relieved Ol-
mert told reporters. “I said in the
past, I was never offered and I
never took abribe. And I say that
again today”
But it nonetheless served as a
reminder of what might have
been had he managed to com-
plete his term before the scandal
forced him to step down in early
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wing when he began taking a
dramatically more conciliatory
line toward the Palestinians as
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