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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, already reeling from criticism over his handling of last summer's botched war in Lebanon, took another heavy blow on Monday with the announcement that he faces a criminal probe for alleged bribery in a property deal...
...EHUD OLMERT, Israeli Prime Minister, after the arrest of eight young neo-Nazis for attacking Jews and foreign workers and announcing their allegiance to Adolf Hitler in recently surfaced videos. The offenders, who each have only distant Jewish heritage, immigrated to the Jewish state from the former Soviet Union in the early 1990s...
...move reflects the dilemma confronting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert: Some of his generals have been clamoring for a large-scale offensive against Gaza in retaliation for a rocket strike earlier this month by Palestinian militants that landed in a military base, wounding 60 Israeli soldiers. But a big assault on Gaza, said the plan's critics, could have cost Israeli lives and got troops mired there for a long time. Instead, Olmert and his defense minister settled for tougher sanctions on the coastal strip - even at the cost of raising an international outcry...
...society have failed in the educations of these youths.' EHUD OLMERT, Israeli Prime Minister, after the arrest of eight young neo-Nazis for attacking Jews and foreign workers and announcing their allegiance to Adolf Hitler in recently surfaced videos. The offenders, who each have only distant Jewish heritage, immigrated to the Jewish state from the former Soviet Union in the early 1990s...
...Plan Three, said to be favored by Olmert and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, calls for occasional ground strikes into Gaza and an increase in assassinations of Hamas's political and military leadership. "It wouldn't be Ismael Haniyeh [the Hamas leader and ex-Prime Minister], but it would be those right under him," one source told TIME. Until now, Israel has refrained from targeting Hamas's political leadership since they are not involved in the rocket attacks on Israel - the rocketeers usually belong to Islamic Jihad and other smaller Palestinian militant groups. "We want Hamas on the run so that...