Israeli PM's daughter is out (and liberal?)

[Charlie Brown]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Israel-The-Olmerts.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

JERUSALEM (AP) -- To understand why a lifelong hawk like Ehud Olmert could come to embody the moderate center of Israeli politics, look no further than his family.

There's his wife, Aliza, a dove even before they married 35 years ago. And his son Shaul, who refused to serve the army's rule over the Palestinians. And his daughter Dana, who is openly gay and even further left than others in the family.

It wasn't just the household that shaped the man elected last week as Israel's likely next prime minister. Many of the votes for Olmert's Kadima party came from Israelis who, like him, had concluded that the right's dream of ruling a ''Greater Israel'' including the West Bank and Gaza Strip would perpetuate the war with the Palestinians and eventually drown the Jewish state in an Arab majority.

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. I had no idea I was so *brilliant*.

>>>>rom Israelis who, like him, had concluded that the right's dream of ruling a ''Greater Israel'' including the West Bank and Gaza Strip would perpetuate the war with the Palestinians and eventually drown the Jewish state in an Arab majority.>>>>>

A lot of us were saying this 10, 15, 20 years ago. ( I *think*; weren't we?) Could anything be more obvious?

Unrelated note---- paragraph six: His wife is NOT the mother of their adopted fifth child? Better check with HER on that, AP.


Anyway, great story. Almost to good to be true. Let me find some wood on which to knock .