| The other day Ehud Olmert - knowing his political career is over - said that for Israel to remain a Jewish democratic state it must give up control over the West bank and parts of east Jerusalem. Of course, this made a lot of people verrry angry, but since Olmert is not running for public office he doesn't have to limit his speech only to what the public wants to hear. To the impartial observer there may be more than a little sense in what he said - and what sayeth thou?
Incidentally, an ex police chief said in a radio interview that east and west Jerusalem have never been reunited - the Moslem villages and neighbourhoods in the east might as well be a different country, and the police have never had much control over them. |
