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Meanwhile, on Wednesday dozens of army reservists braved rainstorms to camp outside Barak's swanky Tel Aviv apartment demanding that he honor his earlier promise that Labor resign from Olmert's coalition after the Winograd report. But Barak is now hedging; polls show that in an early election, Barak would lose to Netanyahu. So for now, Barak will probably clutch his cabinet seat tight. The politicians and press will be sifting over the gritty details of the report during the next few days, but Olmert and his new enlarged team of media monitors - their ranks have swollen from four...
...battle is hardly over for Olmert. The Winograd Report may have absolved him somewhat, but he still faces a bare-knuckled brawl with his two rivals - Ehud Barak, the Defense Minister and Labor Party leader, and conservative Benjamin Netanyahu, head of the Likud party. Barak's aides noted that the report was "severe" on Olmert's handling of the war (Barak can afford to say this; he was made defense minister after the Lebanon...
...Still, the international outcry over Israel's ban of fuel shipments to Gaza - spurred on by TV footage of Palestinian children huddled in the darkness and hospitals struggling to treat medical emergencies - prompted Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Monday to lift the fuel ban, and allow in medicine, supplies of cooking gas and a week's supply of fuel to run the power plant that feeds electricity to hospitals and sewage and water pumping stations...
...Annapolis peace talks last month, the Israeli team - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Defense Minister Ehud Barak - didn't have high expectations for making headway on the Palestinian issue, but they were confident of pressing their case on Iran to a receptive White House. Instead, Barak was taken aside by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and told that new intelligence persuaded the Americans that Iran wasn't such a big threat after...
...Israelis politely disagreed. As Barak later told Israeli Army Radio, "It seems Iran in 2003 halted for a certain period of time its military nuclear program, but as far as we know it has probably since revived it." He added: "We are talking about a specific track connected with their weapons-building program, to which the American [intelligence] connection, and maybe that of others, was severed." The Israeli defense minister implied that the new U.S. assessment was "made in an environment of high uncertainty...