Olmert admitted some of the positions he was advocating in the interview — such as the division of Jerusalem — were things he opposed during most of his 35-year political career. “I am the first who wanted to enforce Israeli sovereignty on the entire city,” said Olmert, a former mayor of Jerusalem, noting that he opposed the 1978 Camp David accords between Israel and Egypt. “For a large portion of these years, I was unwilling to look at the reality in all its depth.”
