Opinion Polls Are Distorted By Uncertainty About Party Leaders In Kadima & Labor Barak & Ayalon In Neck And Neck Race In Labor Olmert’s Political Fate Could Be Decided By Attorney General And/Or Vinograd Enquiry Into Lebanon War
Internal Politics
PASSING THE BUCK ON NATIONAL SECURITY
Is Israel’s National Interest Taking Back Seat To Political & Personal Careers? Did The Fall Of The Iraqi Regime Impact On Poor Performance Of IDF Ground Forces Against Hezbollah?
Teddy Kollek Laid to Rest
P.M. Ehud Olmert: “There will never be another Teddy Kollek” Mayor Lupolianski: “Teddy was Jerusalem and Jerusalem was Teddy”
BLAIR IN JERUSALEM
Olmert Tells Blair: ‘I’m Ready To Return To Roadmap & Meet Chairman Mahmoud Abbas Without Prior Condition’ Blair To Olmert: ‘The Tragedy Is Everybody Wants Peace But Plan To Get It Is Not Being Implemented’ Hamas Declares: ‘We Do Not Recognize Israel & Reject the Partition Plan of 1947’
OLMERT FIGHTS BACK
PM Ehud Olmert: Yes, We Made Mistakes In The War But There Were Also Amazing Achievements Apparently Referring To Syria: They Now Understand The Price They Will Have To Pay For A Military Operation Against Israel Knesset Members Blast Olmerts Conduct Of War Demanding State Enquiry
BREAKING RANK
Labor Party Caucus Defies Olmert By Supporting State Investigation Into War Olmert officials: ‘This Is Idiocy By Labor Party Leader Peretz’ Retired IDF Generals: ‘Chief of Staff Dan Halutz Should Resign’
ISRAEL GOES TO WAR
Israel now faces the most deadly assaults from south Lebanon and the Gaza Strip since it withdrew from those areas
PM Olmert
Listen to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert speaking to the Foreign Press Association in Jerusalem Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has rejected an offer by Hamas to negotiate for the release of … Read More PM Olmert
OAKS OF BASHAN
Israels new leader Ehud Olmert has launched Operation Oaks of Bashan to try and suppress the Palestinian rockets
SAVING CORPORAL SHALIT
Israel has signaled it will spare no effort to rescue IDF corporal Gilad Shalit Meanwhile the current crisis casts a shadow over the Israeli-Palestinian confrontation and beyond