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...“This is one of the greatest crises in US-Israel relations,” said Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to the US during the Obama administration, and a deputy minister in a prior government....
...Israel suffered from “overconfidence, which led to arrogance, which led to complacency”, said former prime minister Ehud Olmert....
...The same official also says that Ehud Olmert, the prime minister, has “adamantly requested that we all shut up”....
...Michael Oren, an Israeli historian and senior fellow at the Jerusalem-based Shalem Centre, says the Gaza crisis shows that “if you hand back territory it becomes a launchpad for rockets”....
...He has meetings with Ehud Olmert, Israel’s prime minister, and Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority....
...Michael Oren, a senior fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, said the cease-fire weakens Mr Abbas – whose months-long peace negotiations with Israel have shown few tangible results....
...Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, is talking of “handing back” 90 per cent of the West Bank to the Palestinians as part of peace talks. But Barghouti is very sceptical....
...It shows just how remarkably resilient Israel is: in 60 years there has not been one nanosecond of peace,” says Michael Oren, an Israeli historian and senior fellow at the Shalem Center, a Jerusalem-based...
...Ehud Olmert, Israel’s prime minister, came to power promising pull-outs from the West Bank, but was left badly weakened by last year’s Lebanon war....
...Its encouragement had helped bring about a meeting between Mahmoud Abbas and Ehud Olmert, the Palestinian and Israeli leaders....
...Bush owes his friend many quids in return for the quos he received over Iraq; and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert may find it easier to make concessions if Mr Blair, who refused to criticise Israel over the Lebanon...
...hope that the government will be able to maintain a budgetary balance and keep the economic principles of the [Ariel] Sharon government, which the world welcomed and which attracted foreign investment,” Michael...
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