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Ehud Olmert and Amir Peretz announce Kadima-Labor coalition; is it me or do the two look not entirely comfortable with each other? (photo: Tomer Appelbaum/Baubau)
One moment Amir Peretz was negotiating with the Israeli rightist parties to form an odd left-right coalition in which he would be prime minister and the next he was shaking [...]

Robert Rosenberg reports the hopeful news that Kadima seems to be slipping in the polls. Just before Israel attacked the Jericho jail to kidnap Ahmed Saadat and his PFLP colleagues (accused of assassinating Rehavam Zeevi), Kadima was polling its highest numbers of the election campaign, 42 seats. Now, they’re showing a major erosion [...]