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Israel and Bananas
As one wag said in 1977 when Yitzhak Rabin was forced to resign his first prime ministership over a $5,000 account in an American bank, Mr. Olmert has “slipped on a banana peel.” What is emerging is the sense that Israel is moving from a banana peel to, if not a banana republic, at least a banana peel republic.
Editorial of The New York Sun, September 9, 2008
