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Bush rolls out red carpet for Olmert (photo: Kimberlee Hewitt/Whitehouse.gov)
Ehud Olmert came to Washington with high hopes for Bush Administration embrace of his convergence (now called “realignment”) plan to unilaterally set Israel’s international borders and thereby swallow up considerable territory beyond the internationally-recognized Green Line. What did he come away with? Well, he [...]

Gershon Gorenberg notes in The Forward that Ehud Olmert has decided to speed up his timetable for the “major” West Bank settlement withdrawal he touted during the recent election campaign. He plans to complete it within 18 months. According to Gorenberg, Olmert had two considerations in mind. One is that he believes [...]