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...Olmert: There are many non-governmental organizations that can be of assistance, and money can be transferred directly to them. It doesn't always have to go across the administration of the PA in order to become meaningful. We're thinking about it. I'm having a discussion with my top advisers to see what...
...Olmert: Don't expect us to release the money to the Palestinian government. This is a terrorist government and there's no way I can be sure that the money I release will go to the needs you want them for. They might go for financing terror - to Bin Laden, to Hezbollah - I have no idea. If we release the money it will not go through the Palestinian administration...
...Olmert: Not at all. I have not been. I can't talk to him. He's unconscious. I talk to his doctors twice a week, so I know exactly what his situation is and I talk to his sons. For me Arik Sharon - I remember his courage and inspiration. I want to remember him the way he really was, not as an aging 80-year-old man living in bed helpless and unconscious...
...Olmert: I've been working 33 years to reach this minute. I've been doing what I thought was right for the state of Israel. I was never hiding my opinions. I always was at the forefront in all the political battles over the last three decades. I am where I'm supposed to be. I don't believe it was the only possible development that I would be Prime Minister. But I was among the five or six people in the room who everyone with political understanding would think could...
...Olmert: It takes getting used to. I received one of my friends at home the other day. I was in shorts and a T-shirt, which was fine. Then he had to leave, I saw him out the main door, and when I was outside, he said go back in the house. I said why, I thought he was worried about security, because the security doesn't let me go outside. He said, ??Look how you're dressed! You're the Prime Minister!'? I thought, What the heck? This is how I dress. But life has changed, that...