on Talansky, Rishon Tours (double billing), and the Investments Authority (routine lobbying). After Olmert has placated the leftists with his resignation, the witch hunt would result in token sentence or no sentence at all.

The government approved Justice Minister Friedmann’s plan to allow the Knesset to re-vote the laws which the leftist Supreme Court declared unconstitutional. Such laws would be legislated by absolute majority.
The Supreme Court is undeterred in its rulings by the fact that there is no constitution in Israel.

Asif Zardari is an ultra-corrupt thug, like every other Pakistani leader. He was convicted in Switzerland and investigated elsewhere. Zardari is a white-collar criminal without political experience.
It remains to be seen whether he would yield to bribes from the West or threats from Pakistani Islamists. The nuclear-armed country goes through a string of major suicide bombings, and Osama bin Laden remains the single most popular man there. In its feat of the democratizing madness, the US Administration helped ousted General Musharaff. In Palestine, Lebanon, and Pakistan the US-sponsored elections brought Islamists to the power, and now it’s Egypt’s turn.

after the meeting. The Libyan dictator called recently for winding up Israel by establishing a joint Jewish-Palestinian state beside Jordan.