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...committed to seeing that they get considered." Last week, instead of subtly pointing at its wallet, the White House made clear that it was ready to pull it away. What had been an admonition came close to sounding like coercion, at least for some Israelis. Said Yossi Olmert, the Israeli government spokesman: "Bush has crossed that Rubicon...
...past, Shamir had no appetite for talks. He was determined not to give up "one square inch" of occupied territory in return for peace with the Arabs. He even opposed the 1978 Camp David settlement with Egypt. Now, says Ehud Olmert, director of the government press office, the Prime Minister can take a chance. "Shamir has no problem," Olmert says. "We're not talking < about giving up Jewish settlements on the West Bank. We're not talking about giving up Jerusalem...
Soon after Shamir's statement, other members of the Israeli government went even further than the prime minister in voicing Israel's desire for peace negotiations. In a speech on March 17, Minister of Health Ehud Olmert said that once Arab states sit down at the bargaining table, everything would be up for discussion--including, in Syria's case, the status of the Golan Heights...
...Olmert began his talk by saying that he was speaking on behalf of the prime minister. Shamir later distanced himself from the minister's remarks, but more as a result of political pressure than of a real difference of opinion over the territorial question. Olmert is, after all, the prime minister's right-hand man and frequently a mouthpiece for Shamir's foreign policy announcements...
...view is a long way from prevailing in Jerusalem -- let alone Damascus, which in any talks is likely to insist on recognition of its effectual control of Lebanon as well as return of the Golan Heights. But the voices of Olmert and like-minded thinkers are unlikely to be drowned out, because they have logic on their side...