Olmert: Knesset must see joint declaration before summit
Olmert tells AG any significant document must be brought for approval if it contains important decisions.
By Shahar Ilan Tags: Menachem Mazuz KnessetPrime Minister Ehud Olmert has informed Attorney General Menachem Mazuz of his intention to present any joint declaration consolidated with the Palestinians for approval in the Knesset, Haaretz learned on Monday.
The prime minister told the attorney general in a letter that "Every document which expresses Israeli commitment to a significant political-military matter? will be brought before the Knesset?. in accordance with the accepted practice of the State of Israel and as the government of Israel has been doing for generations with regard to significant political documents."
Olmert said it was too early to estimate the results of negotiations with the Palestinians or even what such a joint document would look like.
Given these variables, he wrote, he could not yet say if the document would be fitting to bring before the Knesset. However, if a joint declaration does include considerable Israeli decisions with regard to the state and the region, it will be brought before Knesset.
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As usual Olmert plays the dictaitor an decides himself what he thinks he should get Knesset approval on and if he thinks there is no need he will say my command is final and the Israeli people and government will have to just accept it because I have decided and my word is final. Olmert really is the closest Israel has ever come to a dictaitor and like all dictaitors he is a bungling fool who instead of making laws that benefit the country he simply makes rules which suit his purposes in this case a nobel prize and for the word to tell him what a visionry and brave man he is.