ISRAEL: Olmert new kid on the blog block

"With Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's departure on a diplomatic visit to Japan, we have decided — for the first time — to post a blog on the Prime Minister's Office website," says a statement from the prime minister's office. The blog, it says, is aimed at allowing surfers to learn about the visit and get regular updates, as well as serving as another means of increasing transparency of the PM's activities. Comments will be welcome.

With this, Olmert joins President Shimon Peres, who has been blogging for the Israeli daily Haaretz for several months.  Peres, now turning his famous one-liners into onliners, posted this in October: "In order to maintain our identity, we pray, throughout the world, in Hebrew, and in order to maintain our modernity, we use English."

— Batsheva Sobelman in Jerusalem

Comments

[mike pierceall]

Prince Henry? What about my son? Senaters’ sons? What about my son? Why would they end it? Billions of dollars coming in and only thousands of people lost? Money talks! As it always has! Both sides get rich and young men and women are expendable as they always have been for the length of time! If you think this is any thing else than that ask your self why Muslim against Muslim or Christian against Christian or Jew against everybody? Why Muslim want to kill Christen and Jews and vice versa any way you can think in the name of their God and that makes it OK? Blastfomy and an insult to their God! One final question from a Christian man to the World. Do you really think your God is so stupid that He could not be all things to every religion? From the start of time if you do not call My god by the name that I give him you will suffer his rath and serve ME! I say to the world let go of your ego, Give Peace A Chance, Thank You John!