Acting PM Olmert & Labor Party Leader Peretz Announce Readiness To Cooperate In New Coalition Government Olmert: ‘Labor Will Become Senior Partner In My Cabinet’ Peretz: ‘An Olmert-lead Government Will Provide Stability & Survive Its Four Year
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ODD MAN OUT
Israeli Voters Select Olmert But Cut Him Down To Size Sharon With Netanyahu’s Help Devastated Likud Labors Peretz Failed To Make The Jump From Union Boss To National Leader
ALL ABOARD COALITION TRAIN!
Unofficial Exit Polls Indicate Ehud Olmert’s Kadima Party Will Win Israeli Election Olmert Will Have Wide Range OF Potential Coalition Partners To Choose From Despite Olmert’s Pitch For Another Unilateral Withdrawal On West Bank, It Is Highly Unlikely U.S. Will Support It In Foreseeable Future
C.E.O. OLMERT
Israeli Voters View Olmert As A Competent C.E.O. Who Can Cope Electorate Turned Off By Traditional Labor & Likud Ideology However Kadima Worried About A Low Turn-out Of Voters; Terror Attack Like This Weeks Failed Suicide Bombing Could Affect Election Outcome
ELECTION BY DEFAULT?
Acting PM Olmert May Have Declared Victory But Floating Voters & Low Turnout Could Affect March 28th Election Labors Peretz & Likud’s Netanyahu Are Now Banking On Last Minute Swing Which has Not Been Reflected In Public Opinion Polls
HOW TO TACKLE HAMAS
FM Livni: Israel May Stop Hamas Officials From Passing Through IDF Checkpoints in West Bank Hamas Will Start Making More Moderate & Vague Statements About Israel In Order To Gain International Recognition – Israel Wont Buy It Although Jordan Anticipates That Israel Court-Martial IDF General Who Said King Abdullah May Be Country’s Last Monarch, There Is No Strategic Crisis
DICHTER’S DISENGAGEMENT AGAIN
Kadima Candidate Dichter: ‘Kadima Plans On Implementing Another Unilateral Withdrawal Of Isolated Settlements In West Bank Immediately After Election’ ‘However, IDF Will Maintain Control Of Evacuated Areas’ Prime Minister Olmert Will Reportedly Seek International Support For Step, If Hamas Does Not Change Its Positions
RISE OF ISRAELS FAR RIGHT
Likud’s Bibi Netanyahu: Likud Party Vote Will Pave The Way For Home-Stretch Bid To Catch Kadima’s Olmert In Election Campaign Kadima Loses Two Mandates In the Polls Slipping To Thirty-Seven Labors Amir Peretz Tries To Cash In By Meeting Mahmoud Abbas But Big Surprise Of Campaign Is Rise Of Far Right Parties
SAVING MAHMOUD ABBAS
Israel & U.S. May Be On Collision Course Over Status Of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Israeli Officials: “Hamas May Agree That Abbas Be Their Front Man While Terrorists Grant Jewish State A Stay Of Execution”
CAMPAIGN UPDATE
Avi Dichter: Israel Is Not Going To Bleed For Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas There Is Absolutely No Difference Between Hamas And The Chechnyan Terrorists Responsible For Massacres In Beslan School & Moscow Theatre