Future of Olmert Coalition Government Now Hinges On Defense Minister Ehud Barak Barak Must Decide Between Honoring His Word To Topple Olmert And Continuing His Job Of Rehabilitating The IDF After Second Lebanon War Barak’s Party Could Convene To Decide the Issue Which has Split Israeli Society
Internal Politics
SDEROT & LIEBERMAN
Lieberman Protests Phony Palestinian Peace Process While Real War Being Waged Over Sderot Olmert & Barak Prefer Escalation Of Special Operations Rather Than IDF Invasion Of Gaza Olmert Coalition Government Still Pivots On Labor’s Barak
PRELUDE TO WINOGRAD
Knesset Report: ‘IDF Entered Second Lebanon War Unprepared & Without Operational Plan – Over-depended On Air Power To Suppress Hezbollah Rocketing Without Preparing Significant Ground Operation’ Reserve Soldiers Interrupt Knesset Presentation Demanding Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s Resignation
Olmert vs. Winnograd
Prime Minister Olmert: ‘I have no intention of resigning regardless of Winnograd report’ Labor party sources doubt Defense Minister Barak will keep his pledge to resign after Winnograd IsraCast: Public opinion polls after upcoming Winnograd report will likely determine political fate of Prime Minister
Olmert ‘Goes For Broke’
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert: ‘Annapolis will be a one day meeting to launch serious and intensive peace negotiations with Palestinians’ ‘Peace accord can be reached before President Bush leaves office’ ‘I am ready to negotiate all stages of roadmap before Palestinians halt terrorism’
From Rabin To Annapolis
Israel Marks Twelfth Anniversary Of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s Assassination
ANNAPOLIS SPIN VS. GAZA ROCKETS
IDF Gen. Moshe Kaplinsky: ‘Israel Cannot Ignore Indefinitely Hamas Rocketing Attacks From Gaza. Big IDF Ground Operation To Root Out Terror Infrastructure Is Matter Of Timing’ Annapolis Dilemma – How Can Prime Minister Olmert Help Shore Up Palestinian President Abbas Without Risking Israeli Vital Interests?
RUSSIAN ROULETTE IN SDEROT
Likud MK Benyamin Netanyahu: ‘Prime Minister Olmert Has Abdicated His First Responsibility to Protect Children, Women and Men Of Sderot’ ‘Need For Ground Operation Into Sderot Before Qassam Rocket Causes Massacre In Town’ Kadima MK Prof. Isaac Ben-Israel: ‘Political Considerations Are Preventing Military Solution To Suppressing Qassam Rocketing From Gaza Strip’
AUSCHWITZ BORDERS?
Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert & Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Reportedly Discuss Peace Plan Likud MK Yuval Steinitz: ‘Olmert’s West Bank Withdrawal Scheme Will Push Israel Back To Auschwitz Lines’ While Olmert & Abbas Were Meeting in Jerusalem, Palestinian Terrorists Launch More Qassam Rockets At Sderot
BARAK BRAKES ON OLMERT
Defense Minister Barak Opposes Prime Minister Olmert’s Plan To Lift West Bank Checkpoints Olmert & Barak Appear To Be On Collision Course But Will Likely Reach Modus Vivendi For Short Term Labor Cabinet Minister Ben Eliezer: ‘Palestinian Suicide Bombers Will Again Threaten Israeli Civilians If Vital Checkpoints Are Lifted’