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Arab Views: Will Ehud Olmert succeed in resurrecting Israel’s conscience?

ATHENS: With Israelis preparing to vote in their first election since Oct. 7 and the ensuing wars in Gaza, Lebanon and with Iran, former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says he remains one of the few Israeli voices willing to put a two-state solution on the table. Olmert, who led Israel from 2006 to 2009, offered the Palestinians a state on almost all the land occupied in 1967 during his final year in office. The proposal was never signed, and months later he left office. Years afterward, he went to