BYE BYE GAZA - Barry Chamish

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that Appel had requested, and not even whether such help
had been received. This was the second incident that caused
Olmert an attack of amnesia. The first was recorded in 1988,
in criminal case 84/87 against Yehoshua Halperin of the
Bank of North America. Olmert, the witness for the
prosecution, had borrowed $50,000 from Halperin interestfree,
but found at least 12 different ways to say that he could
not remember.
With his recent newfound power, Olmert was quick to turn it
to his advantage.
First, he compromised Israel's telecommunications industry.
Partner is one of the country's three cellular companies. Its
clients include the military, police. . .in fact, the whole
security apparatus. Because of the fear of a hostile takeover,
nobody may purchase more than 10% of a cellular
company's stocks without interference by the government.
In mid-December, Olmert flew to Hong Kong and met with
the CEO of Hutchison Telecommunications International, the
majority shareholder in Partner. Just a week later, an
Egyptian company, Orascom, bought 19.85% of Hutchison's
shares which just happened to give it a 9.997% of Partner's
stocks.
Olmert had coached well. Now one of Israel's most important
telecommunications companies had a new Egyptian partner,
one with stakes in companies in Algeria, Iraq, Pakistan and
Bangladesh, Israel's dearest friends.
As for Olmert; did someone say kickbacks?
Not content with compromising telephone security, Olmert is
now working on our fuel supplies:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/672426.html