Olmert’s Joke: Abbas Is a Man of Peace

Opinion Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert speaks to the media after a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, December 29, 2015. Photo: REUTERS/Debbie Hill/Pool. In one of the more bizarre scenes in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, disgraced and formerly jailed Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert appeared with Palestinian dictator Mahmoud Abbas at the UN to denounce President Donald Trump’s peace plan. Unbelievably, Olmert sat beside Abbas and called him “a man of peace” who is “opposed to terror” and “willing to negotiate at any given time with the State of Israel.” Perhaps less surprising was the response of J Street’s Jeremy Ben-Ami, who said the joint...