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When Bush paid a visit to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's home, the presidential convoy had dozens of armored cars, even though Olmert lives just a few blocks away from the historic King David hotel where Bush was staying. Still, compared to other stops on Bush's Middle East wing, Israel is considered comparatively safe. The Israeli police, well-experienced in dealing with suicide bombers, are unmatched in the world when it comes to security. More than 4,000 Israeli police and soldiers stopped traffic and cordoned off chunks of Jerusalem whenever the U.S. President drove through...
Officials are reluctant to get into specifics over Iran. But Mark Regev, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's spokesman, told TIME: "We want to talk to the Americans about where we go from here, what steps have to be taken in the international community diplomatically. We would like to see heightened international pressure on the Iranians...
...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...
...negotiate a final solution by the end of 2008 to the decades-old regional conflict. But Palestinians wanted more out of Annapolis than mere words and hazy promises. Before the summit, Abbas was pushing the Israelis to release up to 2,000 Palestinian inmates, but Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert refused. (Israel is holding more than 10,000 Palestinian inmates, many in jail for for years without being charged or put on trial.) It was only after U.S. prodding, Palestinian sources told TIME, that Israel agreed to free 429 Palestinian inmates, none engaged in terrorist activities. Presidential sources told TIME...
Maybe it's the optimists' time. At the morning meeting in the U.S. Naval Academy's superintendent's house on the banks of the Severn River in Annapolis, Bush pushed Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to agree on a negotiating plan for the next 14 months. That was an unexpected turn in the talks. "[Bush] said it was rare when people find themselves at a juncture where they can change history," said a senior Administration official in the room. "It was very moving." But history judges leaders on their handling of the national interest...