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Political fallout -- Olmert in June 2005: "We are tired of fighting, we are tired of being courageous, we are tired of winning, we are tired of defeating our enemies, we want to be able to live in an entirely different environment of relations with our enemies." Underground?
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| By Israel Insider staff December 20, 2007 |
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's home is being outfitted with a bunker that can withstand a nuclear or chemical attack, Yediot Aharonot -- Israel's most popular daily newspaper -- reported Thursday. Workers at Olmert's Jerusalem residence are thickening walls, digging, and installing air purification equipment to counter chemical agents.
Although Mark Regev, an Olmert spokesman, would not comment on the report, he dismissed the report's significance: "Obviously all governments have an obligation to guarantee the ongoing and efficient functioning of the government in a crisis situation," Regev said.
But the report quoted anonymous Olmert representatives as denying that a bunker was being constructed, saying only that a "safe room" was being added. Israeli construction codes require such rooms, so the Prime Minister was -- according to this explanation -- merely conforming with the law -- at the taxpayer's expense, of course.
The work on his home follows renovation of a bunker underneath his office building, where Cabinet ministers are supposed to convene in case Israel's government center in Jerusalem is attacked, the paper said.
And then there's the huge billion-shekel plus nuclear bunker complex that taxpayers are funding just down the hill from Jerusalem, near the Ben-Gurion International airport, accessible via a tunnel leading from government offices inside the city to assist officials and their families on their way, presumably, out of the country into the safety of exile. The bunker is supposed be ready in 2011, the report said. |
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