Tzvi Fishman seems to get a lot of responses and comments when he deals with the more biological aspects of life.  I'm not sure I can deal with that subject properly but I looked around for something approximate.  And I think I found it:

Did you know that, in the United States, the test of obscenity still hinges on a 1973 Supreme Court ruling which held that a work is not legally obscene if it has "literary, artistic, political or scientific value."

If we can be liberal enough to apply that standard here in Israel, although I am not sure what our own High Court for Justice holds up as a standard, I ask you, dear readers:

According to that test, is Ehud Olmert obscene?

Can we write a play or a book about him?  Can his wife, the artist, use him as a subject, abstract or otherwise?  Can we analyse him for any psychological value?

There must be something, no?  Some value?

Here's the latest sticker going around:

It reads in Hebrew: "Shalem, Chaver".

Which, of course, is a slight take-off on the famous Shalom, Chaver of Bill Clinton, in parting from Yitzhak Rabin.

But, whereas Clinton said "Shalom", Olmert is saying "Shalem", which translates as "Pay!".

It's tough being a Prime Minister (and demanding prime rates).

This is a view of Neveh Dekalim today:-

From an Haaretz story:-

One person who visited Gaza last week says that the Netzarim settlement, for example, has been completely wiped off the face of the earth and the area where it stood is now desolate. Aside from the empty streets and hothouses, he said, nothing is left. Not even the rubble of the houses...

...Palestinian merchants are using the Kfar Darom area as a market; the Rafiah Yam settlement in the Katif Bloc is being used by Palestinian fishermen; and open areas between the settlements have been turned into Hamas military compounds, which most residents of the Strip do not enter either.

...The buildings in the Neve Dekalim settlement, which was the largest in the Katif Bloc, were mostly left without windows and doors. Two structures that remained were put to use, however: The settlement's local council building and school have been converted into premises for Al-Aqsa University, which was renovated and is operated by the PA. A mosque has been built nearby and Hamas guards are posted at the entrance to the campus to ensure that students do not bring in any weapons.

And so, 1000+ days after the expulsion and several hundreds of Qassma rockets and Grad missiles later, Ehud Olmert and Co. would have us presume that peace and security and economic prosperity and coexistence are just around the corner.

Actually, the only thing that seems sure is Olmert's disengagement from power and position.

Is a cell his next location?

How much is Ehud Olmert worth politically?

And how much is Olmert worth morally?

And, how much is worth Olmert ethically?

He's not worth very much, is he?

So, who needs him?

Ehud Barak, do you want him?

No, huh?

Tzippi Livni, do you want him?

Oh, well.  Bye-by, the, Mr. Olmert.

Ehud Olmert, Prime Minister of Israel, is suspected of taking either bribes and/or illegal election campaign donations.

Olmert's aide and confidant, Shula Zaken, is suspected of keeping track of the movement of funds.

Uriel (Uri) Messer, Olmert's personal lawyer, is suspected of receiving those funds and passing them to Olmert and the movement of such funds was monitored by Shula who reported to Ehud.

Moshe Talansky is suspected that he provided those funds.

Is this all clear?

Okay, now things begin to get complicated.

Menni Mazuz, the Attorney-General, seems to have had evidence, in the form of memos that Shul Zaken recorded on the computers at the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, for several months before giving the material to the police so they could investigate.  In other words, was the prosecution simply bumbling or purposefully sabotaging the police ability to do its job?

Messer's wife, Davida (Didi) Lahman-Messer, just happens to be the Deputy Attorney-General, Mazuz's chief assistant.  Yaron Zelicha, who was forced out of his position as Accountant General for being a whistleblower on government corruption, has accused Didi of overt and unwarranted inteference on behalf of a client of her husband, Uri.

Mazuz's sister, Yemima, has, for the past 12 years, been the Legal Advisor of the Ministry of the Treasury.  She is just now moving over to Tenuva, the Histadrut dairy conglomerate.  The last previous Minister of the Treasury, Avraham Hirshson, a lonmg-time friend and comrade of Olmert, is now on trial for the theft of 1.2 million NIS.

More details here.

Now, would you trust Ehud Olmert to make the correct and moral decision regarding the Land of Israel, Israel's security, diplomatic arrnagements, peace agreements, protection of Sderot and Ashkelon, et al., and whatever else a Prime Minister is supposed to be doing when he's not (suspected of) stealing/misappropriating/embezzling monies?