A responsible government must intervene
While we were celebrating Rosh Hashana, the week's major event took place far from here, in Washington and on New York's stock exchange. The Administration's intervention to bail out the American economy by injecting hundreds of billions of dollars into the banking and financial industries and companies in distress is an event equal in historic significance to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989. Small wonder that the US Congress refused to support the plan the first time around. A stable government must be in place
Tzipi Livni's victory in the Kadima primaries will have a major impact in Israel over the coming months. The way the primaries were conducted in Kadima and all the events surrounding election day illustrated that the 'Kadima political culture' is identical to the original - the Likud's. On the political front however, thanks to Olmert especially, Kadima deviated from the Likud's path and let's hope that continues. Crime and premiership
The prime minister's announcement that he will not run for the leadership of Kadima and will assist the person elected in his place to become the premier of the next government was last week's major event. I have never voiced a legal opinion as to Olmert's guilt or innocence. I believe in the basic democratic principle that a man is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law - and only there. That principle applies as much to a Prime Minister as it does to any other citizen. I cannot ignore the fact that all three of Olmert's predecessors in office were prosecuted, and not one of them was indicted. |
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