And I thought it was bad in AmeriKa.
What gets me about Olmert's defense is this:
"Olmert's behavior was routine for Israeli politicians"
"Olmert's lawyer questions witness" by Griff Witte, Washington Post | July 18, 2008
JERUSALEM - Attorneys for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert sought yesterday to poke holes in the testimony of a New York businessman at the center of a probe that threatens to bring down Olmert's government.
In a full day of cross-examination, the lawyers repeatedly tried to undermine Morris Talansky's credibility by pointing to inconsistencies in his statements.
Talansky, 75, was adamant that his testimony has been truthful.
"I never gave a false answer," he said.
Talansky has said he gave Olmert more than $150,000 over a nearly 15-year period, much of it in the form of cash stuffed into envelopes. He has also said that while the money was intended to help fund Olmert's political campaigns, he believes that much of it went to support the Israeli politician's lavish lifestyle, including a family vacation to Italy, fine cigars, and a three-night stay at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Washington.
That allegation is now being investigated alongside evidence that Olmert may have bilked various charities of more than $100,000 by billing multiple organizations for the same flights and hotel stays.
Among the alleged victims of the scam are the Holocaust memorial authority Yad Vashem, a group that supports Israeli soldiers, and another that helps mentally disabled children.
Olmert has insisted that he has done nothing wrong and that his innocence will be proved as the investigation proceeds. Most legal analysts view Talansky's cross-examination, which is expected to extend well into next week, as the best chance Olmert has left to exonerate himself.
The prime minister's legal strategy appears to rest on demonstrating that Talansky is untrustworthy and showing that Olmert's behavior was routine for Israeli politicians.
Talansky appeared nervous during the questioning yesterday, fiddling with a plastic cup and drumming his fingers on the table, and acknowledged that he may have been off with some of his dates. But his attorneys said afterward they did not believe Olmert's attorneys had exposed any serious flaws in his story."
And don't you wish the AmeriKan MSM would spend as much print and time on the dead AMERICAN boys and girls, readers?
Case closed, readers.
This is the creature Nasrallah hailed as a resistance hero, the figure Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh called a "huge hero who sacrificed 30 years of his life for the Palestinian issue," the celebrity that Lebanon's president and prime minister saluted as a liberated freedom fighter.
All wars are inhumane. But not all warriors lose their humanity."When I think of what Israel has done to the Palestinians, and then read this racist rubbish from the fucking Boston Globe, I want to wretch!!
Oh, and about the little girl:
"Kuntar accuses Israel of fabricating story of child killing
Released prisoner Samir Kuntar accused Israel late Thursday of fabricating the story of how he killed the four-year-old daughter of an Israeli man in 1979.
'Israel has fabricated the story about how I killed the child during the attack I carried out in 1979,' Kuntar told the Hezbollah- run Al Manar television.
He said that he read in the Israeli paper Maarev a report, which was published April 23, 1979, a day after he carried out his attack that the child was killed in cross-fire"
Hey, what is one more god-damn Zionist lie, right?
.... An Israeli-Syrian peace could also lead to an Israeli peace accord with Lebanon, the neutralizing of Hezbollah, and the end of Syria's alliance of convenience with Iran.
That is why Israeli-Syrian negotiations frighten Iran. An adviser to Iran's supreme leader was quoted this week in a Saudi-owned daily saying, "Iran does not recognize a state called Israel in the region and would not be pleased for an Islamic country like Syria or Turkey to negotiate with her." The adviser also warned: "Deep changes will affect the nature of Iranian-Syrian relations if Damascus signs a peace agreement with and recognizes Israel."
Those changes are the prize Israeli negotiators are pursuing with Assad's envoys in Istanbul. The Israelis know what they are doing. Israel's major security threat today comes from Iran - from Iran's long reach, through Syria, to Hezbollah forces in Lebanon and to Hamas fighters in Gaza.
And Israeli leaders understand something Bush seems not to grasp: that Assad is probably right when he says he will have to wait for a new American president to make peace with Israel. It's too bad Bush wasted eight years weakening the peace camp in the Mideast and strengthening Iran."Yeah, and too bad that the Boston Globe and New York Times helped him the whole way!!!
This is one more of the Globe's downright offensive editorials, and I'm at the end with them, folks!!!
