Kadima & Labor Sign Coalition Pact That Envisages Unilateral Withdrawal Plan If No Palestinian Peace However, U.S. Signals It Will Not Support Olmert’s Unilateral Plan To Determine Final West Bank Border
Palestinian Issues
ISRAEL SEEKS NEW SOLUTIONS
PM Olmert: ‘Israel Will Know How To Respond To Suicide Bombing In Tel Aviv’ Former Israeli Security Official: ‘Situation May Get Worse Before It Gets Better’ Israel Seeks New Tactics To Supress Terrorism After Withdrawal From Gaza
KEDUMIM & PALESTINIAN MUSICAL CHAIRS
Dr. Dan Schueftan: ‘Fatah Suicide Bombing At Kedumim Again Shows There Are No ‘Good Guys Or Bad Guys’ On Palestinian Side’ ‘Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh Is Trying To Weasel His Way Into Pockets Of West, While Fatah Headed By President Abbas Carries Out Killing’
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
KISSINGER & LIEBERMAN
Henry Kissinger Recommends An Israeli Palestinian Land Exchange: If you want to be really creative, you would take territory with significant Arab population to help the demographic problem Kissinger’s statement appears to lend support to position of right leader Avigdor Lieberman
OLMERT HAS TAKEN OFF THE GLOVES
IDF Chief of Staff Halutz: ‘Jericho operation was not political – it was necessary after Palestinians drove out international observes and threatened to free terrorists’ Acting PM Olmert has sent message to both Palestinians and Israelis
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
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”