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Avoiding JordanRe Andrew Butters' postcard from the Jordan River: The river has never been "deep and wide" [Sept. 15]. And the so-called "Island of Peace" was the site of a massacre in 1997 when a Jordanian soldier opened fire and killed seven Israeli schoolgirls on an outing. David Holtzer...
1 | Israel Prime Minister Shuffle After the resignation of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni is poised to become the nation's first female Premier since Golda Meir. Livni, a 50-year-old lawyer and former low-level Mossad agent with only about a decade of political...
Even before Olmert handed in his terse, two-sentence resignation to President Shimon Peres Sunday night, Livni was trying to shore up support over the weekend for a new government. She already faces one handicap: she emerged as Kadima chairwoman after a bruising leadership battle that has left her party...
First, Livni will try to glue back together the coalition fabricated by Olmert with the Labor Party along with smaller parties representing pensioners and the ultra-orthodox lobby. She is trying to bring Labor on board again by offering them a "real partnership" - making key concessions that Olmert would not...
The Israeli press was less charitable. The left-leaning Haaretz daily opined that Israel in its 60 years had never known a worse government than Olmert's. "Its balance sheet comes very close to zero," the editorial stated. Many Israelis blame Olmert for bungling the 2006 war in Lebanon against...