Ehud Olmert endorsed Israel’s defense minister. “I think Amir Peretz is doing a fine job, and I have no intention of firing him,” the prime minister said Thursday when asked by reporters about rumors that his relationship with the Labor Party leader has deteriorated since the Lebanon war.
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