Olmert op-ed uses the word ‘Jewish’ only once (and hints at one-state)

Ehud Olmert's piece on the peace process in today's Washington Post is accompanied by this cool graffiti off the Wall– and includes this telling phrase:
Mondo
"a complete freeze on settlement construction — impossible to completely enforce."

My policy is to keep both feet off the ground on this site, but I feel there is a shadow of the one-state solution in this piece. Not a word about the Jewish state, though something about "Jewish population centers" in the West Bank. And Olmert talks about the two-state solution chiefly in historical terms. As something he worked to try to achieve, and the Palestinians didn't accept. And a hint, too, in his desire for Israel and Palestine to be part of the world community, that democracy is the answer…

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