Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Announces He Has Prostate Cancer!

[Dan]

JERUSALEM —  Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced Monday that he has prostate cancer but that the disease is not life threatening and he will continue to perform his duties.

Speaking to a packed news conference in Jerusalem, the Israeli leader said he will have surgery and that he has "full chances" of recovery. He said the disease was caught at an early stage.

Olmert, 62, took office in March 2006 after his predecessor, Ariel Sharon, suffered a debilitating stroke.

"I will be able to fulfill duties fully before my treatment and hours afterward," Olmert said. "My doctors told me that I have full chances of recovery."

One of Olmert's doctors, Shlomo Segev, said the prime minister had a biopsy on Oct. 19 and got the results a week later. Another of his doctors, Yaacov Ramon, said Olmert has a "limited growth" that poses no short-term threat. He said treatment could wait several months without any risk.

The announcement came at a delicate time in Mideast peacemaking, just weeks ahead of a U.S.-brokered summit designed to relaunch long-stalled peace talks. It was not clear how or if Olmert's illness would affect his already troubled efforts to frame a common outline with the Palestinians ahead of the conference, scheduled to take place in Annapolis, Md., in either November or December.

[Vito]

Nanananananah

[mord]

He said the disease was caught at an early stage.

To bad it was'nt acute alzheimers

[Yisrael]

Remember Ariel Sharon had a first stroke, also being told he will recover? I think that was a warning from God, but kept up his hate for the Jewish people and the land of Israel, so he got his second a fatal stroke.

Here too, Olmert has a chance, keep Jerusalem united and you will be saved. Destroy it, God will destroy you.

Yesh din, V'yesh Dayan.

[nopeaceforland]

Remember Ariel Sharon had a first stroke, also being told he will recover? I think that was a warning from G-d, but kept up his hate for the Jewish people and the land of Israel, so he got his second a fatal stroke.

Here too, Olmert has a chance, keep Jerusalem united and you will be saved. Destroy it, G-d will destroy you.

Yesh din, V'yesh Dayan.

Well said! Definitely, a warning from Hashem!

[Yisrael]

Let's hope he does T'shuva and lives a long and happy life.

[kellymaureen]

He said the disease was caught at an early stage.

To bad it was'nt acute alzheimers

Are you sure he doesnt already have that, he doesnt seem to know what he's doing.

[mord]

He said the disease was caught at an early stage.

To bad it was'nt acute alzheimers

Are you sure he doesnt already have that, he doesnt seem to know what he's doing.

Thats truethe only problem is most of Israelis have also,so they don'nt realize who the Prime minister is

[Yisrael]

Actually, he seems to be knowing what he is doing very well.

He is surviving with an even lower approval rating that the U.S. Congress has.

He may be evil, but he ain't stupid.

[Eliezer Ben Avraham]

seems like his Yom kippur confessional wasn't done right
see the arutzsheva cartoon about it

[genteelgentile]

I find it difficult to have mercy or pity on Olmert.  I am thinking that I hope his prostate explodes.

[Merkava]

Here too, Olmert has a chance, keep Jerusalem united and you will be saved. Destroy it, G-d will destroy you.

Yep...G-d is angry

[Joe Gutfeld]

I hope he dies from it.