Ehud Olmert
Ehud Olmert
Ehud Olmert; born 30 September 1945) is an Israeli politician and lawyer. He served as Prime Minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009 and before that as a cabinet minister from 1988 to 1992 and from 2003 to 2006. Between his first and second stints as a cabinet member, he served as mayor of Jerusalem from 1993 to 2003...
NationalityIsraeli
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth30 September 1945
CountryIsrael
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Israel's strength will allow it to face the situation. We will carry on running the country and pray for good news from the hospital.
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I love my country more than anything else.
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Growing up in Israel, how can I not be an optimist? When you remember what Israel was 50 years ago and you see Israel now, one of the most successful countries in the world, stable, democratic, with an enormously stable economy despite everything that has happened in the global economy in the last few years, how can I not be an optimist?
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There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons.
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The new government will face complex challenges ... I believe it will be sworn in.
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The fence will continue being built and we will go on taking care of the security of Israel's citizens,
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I'm saying those things here and now out of a belief in the State of Israel's immense power and the immeasurable courage of its soldiers, military leaders, and security forces to hit any enemy and defeat any terrorist. Out of this sense of strength we must act with all our power in order to create hope for a different life for our young generation and that of our Palestinian neighbors.
feeling soldier
I had the feeling that as a soldier I didn't do what I thought I had it in me to do, and wanted to do.
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Anyone involved in planning terror attacks will be a legitimate target for liquidation.
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We will use an iron fist against any attempt to renew terrorist action. We will use drastic measures on all the roads, in all sensitive areas.
activity against attempt fist iron renew terror
We will use an iron fist against any attempt to renew terror activity anywhere.
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And there was a soldier with a gun that just caught him in time to kill him before he was continuing his shooting.
president talk
First of all I will talk to (U.S.) President (George W.) Bush.
defend powerful
We do not take it lightly. We are powerful and able to defend ourselves.