Word: olmert
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...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...
...hailed in the Arab world last year for resisting a massive Israeli incursion into Lebanon. That onslaught was triggered by Hizballah's capture of two Israeli soldiers, and Israel's failure to crush Hizballah or even win the release of its men severely damaged Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's political standing...
...time is to ignore any violence they sponsor and persevere toward the goal of a comprehensive Arab-Israeli settlement. Such an approach has merit, given that a majority of Israelis and Arabs desire peace and thus opponents could be scorned for prolonging misery and hopelessness. The problem is that Olmert and Abbas are politically very weak, thanks to past failures in peace and war, and will find it difficult to behave like statesmen in the event of new violence...
Pragmatic and persevering leaders may yet overcome the supposedly intractable issues at the core of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. Arafat's successor Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and key Israeli political figures, including Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, have in one way or another signaled their willingness to accept Jerusalem as two capitals for two states. There is an increasing consensus about Israel's need to withdraw to the pre-1967 borders, albeit with land swaps that accommodate the reality of large Jewish population centers in the West Bank planted during decades of settlement projects...