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lambasted then-prime minister Ehud Olmert for his handling of the Second Lebanon
War.
The document paraphrased Netanyahu as saying that "If Olmert had mobilized the
reserves in ten days, seized ground, destroyed Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, and then
withdrawn, he would be a hero today." Since he did not, Netanyahu predicted, Olmert
would not remain in power for long.
Netanyahu described Olmert as being under tremendous political pressure between
investigations into his alleged criminal wrongdoing and the interim conclusions of the
Winograd Commission investigating the war.
"Olmert could be pushed out as a result of a rebellion within the Kadima Party," the
cable said, paraphrasing Netanyahu. "Kadima members are realizing they cannot allow
Olmert to stay in power, but Kadima itself might collapse since it was a 'fake party.'"
Some of the documents highlighted Israel's increasingly tense relations with Turkey.
James F. Jeffrey, then U.S. ambassador to Ankara, wrote in an April 26, 2009 cable of his
meeting with Gabby Levy, then Israel's ambassador to Turkey. At the meeting, held a
year before Israel's raid on a Turkish-sponsored flotilla to Gaza, Levy blamed Turkish
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the deterioration in once-friendly relations.
The Israeli envoy, the cable said, "noted that the prime minister's party had not gained a
single point in the polls from his bashing of Israel. Instead, Levy attributed Erdogan's
harshness to deep-seated emotion: 'He's a fundamentalist. He hates us religiously' and
his hatred is spreading."
Adding his own analysis, Jeffrey concluded, "Our discussions with contacts both inside
and outside of the Turkish government on Turkey's deteriorating relations with Israel
tend to confirm Levy's thesis that Erdogan simply hates Israel."
A May 16, 2009 cable from the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv discussed Israel's secret ties to
the United Arab Emirates. Quoting Yaakov Hadas, the head of the Foreign Ministry's
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