from The Jerusalem Post
Days before the expected end of his premiership, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert blasted the Palestinian Authority leadership for lacking the courage to make peace with Israel.
"I have held contacts with the head of the Palestinian Authority," the prime minister said at Sunday's cabinet meeting while neglecting to mention that the Palestinian people actually elected Hamas no the PA in internationally recognized democratic elections. "I have no doubt that these contacts formed conditions conducive to signing a peace agreement."
"The State of Israel will have to make dramatic and very painful concessions in order to achieve peace, but the fact that we have not yet achieved it is first and foremost a result of the weakness of Palestinian [Authority] leaders [and their inability] to reach an agreement," Olmert said.
He said Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni had carried out "complex and intricate work" with the Palestinian Authority and that no future government would be able to hold peace negotiations without the foundations she had put in place.
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