Olmert: Israel's future does not lie in West Bank
PM again renounces Greater Israel vision, says government should invest in other areas
As he prepares to bid the post of Kadima chairman farewell, Ehud Olmert again renounced the Greater Israel vision, saying Israel's future does not lie in Judea and Samaria.
Retrospectively, the State of Israel invested great resources in the West Bank in vain, the PM said during a tour at a student village Wednesday.
"The State of Israel invested great energies in order to build where in retrospect it turned out the country won't be built," the PM added. "I'm saying this carefully…I have great appreciation for the people who built their homes in those places, and in the past I too supported them."
During the tour, a student asked Olmert whether he will move to the Negev once he ends his political career, similarly to former Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion.
The PM replied: "It is difficult for me to answer this question because I still don't know what I'll be doing. My decision to resign was painful…I know there are many other things I could have done that would have made this nation happy. Yet I have hold bitterness, anger, or fury towards anyone."
