It probably wasn't how most Israelis wanted to celebrate the 60 years since their nation's founding.
Despite the best effort of investigators to keep a lid on the unfolding investigation of Israeli PM Ehud Olmert so as not to spoil the case or ruin the celebratory mood, the facts blew Thursday night.
Olmert hastily called reporters to his Jerusalem residence to make a blunt statement: I am not a crook.
For the past week, Israeli papers have been filled with ominous, anonymous sources predicting that this case is the beginning of the end for Olmert. And Olmert's unusual decision to deliver the late night statement - televised live - suggests that he, too, sees this investigation as more serious than the others.
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So, other nations can have the same political diseases. Could it be that there is a Nixon Virus?
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