Where Olmert appears
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wever, marked the start of an increasingly tough period in both my and Tzipi’s relationship with Olmert. Policy was not the problem. There were no major security crises in the months ahead. But in the spring of 2008, it became known that th...
…rians. All of this, under a tight seal of secrecy. Finally, in early September 2007, everything was in place. Olmert briefed the cabinet, and secured the ministers’ approval to destroy the reactor, with the understanding that the precise ti...
… the Palestinians was stalemated. I could see no point in remaining in the government. Like my last period in Olmert’s government, my final few months were dominated by finding a way to end Hamas attacks from Gaza. During one 24-hour period...
… campaign contributions. Publicly, I reserved judgement. “I hope, for everyone’s sake, and for Prime Minister Olmert’s sake, that the suspicions now circulating turn out to be baseless,” I told a reporter. “Let’s be patient.” Privately, I u...
wever, marked the start of an increasingly tough period in both my and Tzipi’s relationship with Olmert. Policy was not the problem. There were no major security crises in the months ahead. But in the spring of 2008, it became known that th...
…rians. All of this, under a tight seal of secrecy. Finally, in early September 2007, everything was in place. Olmert briefed the cabinet, and secured the ministers’ approval to destroy the reactor, with the understanding that the precise ti...
ould actually destroy the reactor. Over the next few months, Olmert got more and more frustrated with the fact we hadn’t yet attacked, and frustrated with me as well. We held dozens of meetings, sometimes two or three a day, chaired by the...
…ance with Iran, and with Hizbollah in Lebanon. The question, however, was how and when to strike the reactor. Olmert wanted to attack within days. He seemed to assume that, as a former chief of staff, ’'d nod enthusiastically and go along w...
years, initially when I was in the kirya and both he and another rising Likud politician to whom I became closer, Dan Meridor, were members of the Knesset’s defense committee. But from the day I returned to the Israeli government in June 20...
…citizen. But when the commission of inquiry released its report in April 2007, three people were singled out: Olmert, Amir Peretz and Halutz. Olmert was portrayed as a military novice who’d gone into battle without understanding the wartime...
and saying that we should now hit Hamas hard. Both Olmert and Tzipi
Tzipi Livni won. Olmert confirmed he would step aside
it became known that the Israeli police were investigating Olmert’s
but Olmert turned to her and said: “Are you sure you’re
Olmert got more and more frustrated with the fact
… air bombardment, to keep up enough pressure to secure the political arrangement we wanted. And, unlike under Olmert, to end the operation as soon as we’d achieved its aim. On the afternoon of November 14, we launched a targeted air strike...
… the Palestinians was stalemated. I could see no point in remaining in the government. Like my last period in Olmert’s government, my final few months were dominated by finding a way to end Hamas attacks from Gaza. During one 24-hour period...
…aft. Yet in our final meeting with President Bush, during a visit to Israel in June 2008, he made it clear to Olmert and me that he knew what we were up to. Olmert hosted a private dinner for the President. Afterwards, Bush asked to talk pr...
I felt it was not my place to criticize Olmert publicly when Israeli troops
in 2000 (or Rabin and Peres in 1994 or Olmert in 2008)
