So you're saying just because these areas are poor, giving them back (a misnomer because Jews were thrown from there many decades ago) would help peace? Really?? And you don't think the same routes used by terrorists in the past to infiltrate Jerusalem and attack Jewish civilians will be used again? You really think that Pals are fighting for E. Jerusalem as a capital and not to destroy Israel as they have claimed for the past 60 years....without changing their tune and despite concessions made by Israel?? There ISNT truth to your claim on poor in E. J'lem - 1) they DONT pay taxes while sucking on the Israeli welfare system and healthcare, 2) many who live there work IN Israel so they have a better living than some in a small town outside Jenin.

Moslems lost hundreds of thousands of people in order to liberate Jerusalem from the crusaders. Do you think they are simply going to forget about it and give up to the Jews? dream on!!!. I think peace will never happen in the middle east as long Jerusalem is under occupation. Olmert is right for once.

asking the jewish people to give away half of Jerusalem is equivalent to asking the muslim people to give away half of mecca... it is just not going to happen, and for no reason should ever happen. it is our place of worship, the holiest of holies. there are no such options of half a city or half a country to go either way. I live in California now. what do you think any president here would do if native american indians asked for half of Los angeles back because they lived there before. the sad thing is that it does happen. so here they call them native american grounds, in israel arabs call them "camps" if you want camps go look up the holocaust and see what a real camp is. what the palestinians get from Israel, a country that has no obligation whatsoever to them, is more than their muslim brethren of egypt jordan syria and all the other nations who spat in their face when they requested help.

OLMERT HAS LOST HIS MINE,ROCKETS CONTINUE, TERRORISTS STOPPING CENTRAL ISRAEL,SCHALIT STILL NOT HOME,ROCKETS FROM LEBANON AND WE'RE MAKING PEACE WITH A BUNCH OF SAVAGES.GOD HELP US

Is as low a former President Geo. Bush's in the United States. Stupid remarks like this are the reason why. One should add all of Mecca and Medina to Israel's demands, or, at the very least, reparations for the expulsion of Jews from Jordan and other Arab countries since 1947. Perhaps Olmert would feel differently if we traded him for Shalit.

Olmert, like the rapacious Philistines (that's their real name root isn't it?) hands us a false choice: Either divide Jerusalem or there will be no peace. If you divide Jerusalem, there will be peace? If Jerusalem is divided, all moral claim to the land of Israel disappears, as Jerusalem is the Crown, and dearest of all. If Jerusalem is divided, then there will be peace? No. The next claim will be that all the Philistines must be returned to their original homes. Deny that, no peace. OK...they're returned. The next demand will be that since they are the majority, all the Jews must leave. Maybe jail is the best place for Olmert. He has betrayed the dream.

you really wasted precious time. You did NOTHING. YOU NEVER intended on doing anything except save money for your own personal reasons. I REALLY HOPE TO SEE YOU AND YOURS ROT IN JAIL. Take your lesbian daughter, homo son, your abnormal wife and remove yourselves from Israeli society. How dare you tell Family Shalet that they are wasting thier time?????? Your children were cowards and never served in the army. YOU WASTED OUR TIME, BE ASHAMED, EMBARRASSED, GO INTO HIDING. YOU ARE DISGUSTING. YOU and your millionaire friends in south africa, in the USA (NYC and Vermont )and Ausralia. you all belong in one place - BEHIND BARS I can supply names and addresses,.

If any of you think anything else he is a dreamer ... i know how hard that you one cm back from the stolen land but you have to live on earth there is no other way , if you want your next generations to sleep deep and better than you then this is the only way ... the Palistinians will never give up till this happen .... the ball in your field .

Peace is conditional on Israel negating its Jewish identity. The inevitable conclusion is that it is a masked peace offer forcing Israel to war.

"[Jews] lost hundreds of thousands of people in order to liberate Jerusalem from the [Babylonians and Romans.] Do you think they are simply going to forget about it and give up to the [Moslems]? dream on!!!. " [end quote] Ahhhh, that's much better, now that it makes more sense.

Stay there.

there should be no objections to Israel rebuilding the Jewish temple. GOOD! Let's get this things finished! Let's see how much people want to 'share', or if it's the same old one sided demands/wants.

he did not think he said only like you exactly . there is no peace without justice

untill gabrial is coming ..jerusalem is mine it is here in my heart you must understand it befor any one coming .i do i understand jerusalem and i love her keep her in my heart .it is not a place it is more than a place it is a soul can you take the soul from a body and tell that it is a living thing ..jerusalem is me and iam jerusalem .beore and after gebriel is doing any thing but if god order something else i must obey

Olmert now says shalit protestors should desist. What are they supposed to do? Shalit's parents have waited 3 years for his release and nothing. Of course olmert nver fought for israel, he simply ripped off the israeli government. And he offered concessions in return for nothing. I would have taken haniyeh and zohar and their families. Olmert is a piece of drek, scum and should rot in jail just like the volunteer co-ordinator Maureen.

YOU REALLY ARE LOW CLASS AND ONLY ONE WORD DESCRIBES YOU AND YOURS ----. YOU ALL BELONG BEHIND BARS TO ROT. HOW DARE YOU SAY TO FAMILY SHALIT THAT THEY ARE WAISTING THEIR TIME. I WISH THIER POSITION ON YOU. AND THEN LET US HEAR YOU TALK. YOU ARE CORRUPT. A THIEF, A LIAR, AN IDIOT, DISHONEST. MONEY IS THE ONLY THING THAT INTERESTS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY. I HAVE THE FACTS. I HAVE SEEN ALIZA IN ACTION. IN MANY WAYS WAYS SHE IS WORSE THAN YOU AS YOU ARE THE PERSON THAT IS ELECTED. THE ONLY THING THAT INTERESTED YOU WHEN IN POWER IS YOUR POCKET AND NOT THE GOOD WILL OF THE COUNTRY. WHY NOT HAND OVER A LIST OF THOSE THAT CONTRIBUTED TO YOUR CORRUPTION???????? THEY WOULD ALL GO RIGHT TO JAIL. LOWER CLASS THAN YOU IS HARD TO FIND.

I tell you what Ehud - as soon as the Saudis agree to 'share' Mecca/Medina, and as soon as Obama agrees to split Washington DC etc, then maybe the zionists will consider a 'sharing' agreement. Until then, shut the f--k up!

this is excactly what is going to happen in EU, only the naive Europeans didn't get it yet. The muslims in are taking over.

Arabs do not have any right on Jerusalem whatsoever. It is certainly not the fact that the Mosque of El Akza has been built in Jerusalem that gives the Arabs any right (when the Mosque was built, Jerusalem was already Jewish since 1500 years…). Mosques have been built in London, Paris, Brussels and other cities. Does that fact give the Arabs any right on these cities ? There is no doubt about the legitimity of the Jewish sovereignty on Jerusalem as described at : http://xrl.us/bi7qx

Why is this crook being allowed to speak. He should be in jail before he sell out the country.

Does Olmert is a Muslim?. Jerusalem belong to Israel, period.

Olmert your just giving Iran a base in Jerusalem. 2nd, you lie about Rabin. Rabin never said he would divide Jerusalem.

It was a Kurd who led the defeat of the Crusaders. Saladin. Yet all the Arab states oppose a Kurdish state. Explain your hypocrisy, why you support a Pal state but oppose a Kurd state.

moslems becouse moslemes are not cwards they will never give jerusalem to the others but becouse the israili are so cwards they will not give jerusalem to the arabs moslemes or cristians or jews but you think there is no arab jews and this is the fault of israil i think always there were jews who are araby but they were not as courages as arabs becouse of that they do not say that they were arabs or they were moslemes or cristians as tboth are newer than judism

do you understand the international legality EJ is not yours regard

for someone who did SO little for his country and STOLE so much - you and your friends/family belong in a jungle. even that might be too good of a place for you. you really are a dsigrace and DISGUSTING. How do you look in the miror in the morning?????????

Yeah, as a matter of fact, being a lawyer who deals with international law, I do understand the legality. Here it is: 1967: Jordan attacked Israel. Jordan lost, and got pushed out of the territories of Judea and Samaria.. Under the Hague Second Convention (1899) and the Hague Third Convention (1907), a country that fights a defensive war and wins, gets to keep (or not, in its option) any territorial acquisitions. Did you have another (stupid) question, sir?