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Shimon Peres: Growing delusional in his old age?
When the supposedly dovish Shimon Peres tells Ynetnews the world will ultimately have no choice but to go to war with Iran, you have to wonder why the world continues to see him as a distinguished elder statesman:
The conversation with Peres also touched on the hot security subjects [...]

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 [...]

Robert Rosenberg (photo: ariga.com)
Polling today at 37 seats, it seems doubtful that anyone can dent Kadima’s lead in the three weeks remaining before Israeli elections. My heart is with Amir Peretz and Labor. But they’re holding steady at 20 seats, a small improvement over their current representation. Today’s Robert Rosenberg column [...]

Sometimes it seems that Mideast merry go round just keeps spinning round going nowhere fast. Witness, Ehud Olmert’s first ‘bold new’ initiative toward resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. For weeks, Sharon’s minions have threatened to refuse to allow East Jerusalem Palestinians to vote in the upcoming national elections under the ruse that they live [...]

Posing with FC Barcelona soccer shirt before game against Israeli team: traitor to his Party, traitor to his team? (credit: AP)
Shimon Peres has done just about everything he can to telegraph he’s leaving the Israeli Labor Party for Ariel Sharon’s new Kadima except making the actual announcement. First, there were the hours of [...]