Word: olmert
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...report had been dreaded by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his staff ever since retired judge Eliyahu Winograd was asked to assess the results and assign blame for the handling of Israel's flawed 2006 war in Lebanon. And so, when they were handed a copy of the 617-page report today, Olmert and his aides frantically skimmed the document for damning remarks that might have forced the prime minister to resign. They had a single hour before the bloodhounds of the Israel press, along with Olmert's political enemies and the families of soldiers who died...
...Gaza crisis is also a setback for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. In two weeks, he faces the release of a possibly scathing report card by the Winograd committee, appointed by the Israeli government to investigate the many failures that occurred in Israel's 2006 military campaign in Lebanon. Hoping to distract Israelis from the report's anticipated criticism of his performance, Olmert and his government had been working furiously, through Egyptian channels, to free Israeli corporal Gilad Shalit who has been held hostage by Hamas in Gaza since the spring...
...three-step deal - in which 300 Hamas prisoners would be freed, then Shalit followed by thousands more Hamas inmates - was "80% finished". But talks fell apart after Israelis killed 17 Palestinian militants in Gaza last week, one of them the son of a senior Hamas hard-liner. Now, Olmert has no chance of springing the Israeli captive and deflecting attention away from the possibly damning Winograd report...
...spite of the region’s tragic history, there may yet be hope on the horizon. In the past two months Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas have committed to a two-state solution where Israel and Palestine could co-exist peacefully. Since then, the pressure to engage in a new peace process has been applied by President Bush during his first visit to Israel as president. While it is all too possible that this latest process will also be unsuccessful, a continual push toward peace is necessary, and a two-state solution...
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...