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...Responding to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's invitation to all Arab leaders to visit Israel to discuss the Arab peace initiative, Prince Saud said that Arabs were looking for a "clear sign of interest, not just words," such as a freeze on Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories...
...storm is brewing in all corners of the country.' BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, the leader of Israel's right-wing Likud opposition party, after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert survived three no-confidence votes brought against him in the Israeli parliament...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, the leader of Israel's right-wing Likud opposition party, after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert survived three no-confidence votes brought against him in the Israeli parliament...
...despite the health of its democracy, Israel appears unable to rid itself of a leader whom its citizens almost universally see as incompetent. Olmert shows no signs of being ready to quit, or of being forced out in the near future. With approval ratings as low as 3% even before the publication of the damning report, you might think the whole country would be up in arms for him to go. But the crisis over Olmert may be symptomatic of a deeper shift: The Israeli press and civil society groups have made much of the fact that the country...
...rose through the ranks of backroom politics, and whose rise has been accompanied by the corruption scandals to prove it. Greater-good statesmanship has long ago given way to the petty power ambitions of career politicians, as their response to the current crisis seems to demonstrate. Not only is Olmert himself unwilling to do the honorable thing and resign, but his cabinet and the Knesset appears unwilling to risk their own jobs to force him out through a no-confidence vote that would bring new elections that put everyone at risk...