His was not the only example in recent days of a former politician who didn’t have enough sense to exit the public arena when the going was good, or at least not shameful.
EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT Hosni Mubarak (right) listens to Labor Party head and defense minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer during their meeting in Alexandria in July 2002.(photo credit: REUTERS)ByCALEV BEN-DAVID