Lame-duck honesty from Olmert

As with most folks who don’t have to worry about re-election to their position, Ehud Olmert has let his honest streak show in an interview with Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth. During this interview, the recently-resigned Israeli prime minister said that in order to secure peace, Israel would have to give up “almost all” of the land it took over during the 1967 Six-Day War, and that territories it keeps will have to be compensated with land from inside Israel proper.

I can almost hear the outcry from here.

If negotiations do indeed result in an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank before 2048, it could cause problems for my speculative fiction novel “The Four,” in which Israel keeps that land as a buffer to the New Caliphate, which surrounds Israel on all land borders. Oh well, that’s what editing is for.