View source for Olmert's Final Failure

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|author=Jackson Diehl
|source=The Washington Post
|date=December 29, 2008
|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/28/AR2008122801277.html
|quote="Olmert badly miscalculated in launching the 2006 offensive against Hezbollah -- and he's probably making the same mistake in Gaza, which will cost many lives and subject Israel to another round of international opprobrium while distracting attention from the more serious threat of Iran."
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