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A Political Scandal Casts a Shadow Over Israel's 60th Birthday Party

A bribery investigation threatens to bring down Prime Minister Ehud Olmert

Posted May 6, 2008

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What i've heard.

I've heard that he was questioned about associates of his, not about his own actions. But this is only rumors, seeing as how no one outside of the affair knows anything more than speculation.

Olmert

Olmert--OUT..........................Netanyahu--IN

Political Scandals

There are always political scandals of one sort or the other. However, in this instance it should not detract from the celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the birth of the nation of Israel. The Jewish people have suffered enough, through the Holocaust, persecutions, ever present anti-Semitism, terrorists constantly breathing down their neck, threatening to destroy them at the first opportunity. They deserve a thorough celebration for having survived and thrived through all these adversities. If any nation of the world has the right to celebrate for having survived so long under tremendous adversities, the Jewish people do. By the way, why do not the surrounding Arab nations absorb the Palestinians? The are blood brothers and sisters, sons of Ishmael, not sons of Isaac, and should be taken care of by their own, and not try to steal the land of Israel, to which they have no right.

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