The Olmert Scandals
Editorial
Thu. Sep 11, 2008
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Israelis drew a collective gasp of surprise September 7, when the police formally recommended that Ehud Olmert be indicted on corruption charges. The surprise was not that their prime minister was facing accusations of financial impropriety and abuse of power. What caught many Israelis off guard was the flimsiness of the charges.
Olmert had suffered political death by a thousand cuts over the months, watching his credibility drain away as police conducted their probe in the glare of spotlights and leaked lurid details of their findings to the press. In the end, his government paralyzed and his reputation shattered, the prime minister was forced to announce his resignation last month. Now the police report has been published, and it’s suddenly unclear what all the fuss was about. In fact, some ranking officials — and a lot of private citizens — are saying that the prime minister was overthrown in a legal coup by overly zealous police investigators.
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