Ehud Olmert

The blind giant of the Middle East
Israel's disastrous Second Lebanon War showed we've become an existential danger to ourselves. Our future depends on fundamental change.
Bush's delusions die in Gaza
The mass jailbreak of Gazans into Egypt revealed the bankruptcy of both Israel's policy of collective punishment and Bush's attempt to make Mideast peace.
The right wing's Jerusalem gambit
A new coalition of religious hard-liners with ties to President Bush seeks to scuttle any plans for dividing Jerusalem between Israelis and Palestinians.
The real two-state solution
President Bush's peace summit for Israelis and Palestinians ignores a painful truth -- one that we are already living in the Middle East.
Israel's Olmert rises from the rubble
Despite the Gaza disaster and poll numbers that make George Bush look beloved by comparison, the shrewd prime minister has renewed his grip on power.
To Damascus with Nancy Pelosi
Why neocons are so apoplectic about the speaker's visit to Syria.
Last chance for Mideast peace
While Bush and Olmert cling to their hard line, hope for an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is slipping away forever.
Israel's debacle, courtesy of Bush
With U.S. support, Israeli unilateralism was unfurled. The nation's security has never been so endangered, or its moral authority so tarnished.
The coming earthquake
Having failed on the battlefield, Israelis question their leadership and their national direction.
Olmert's toughest test
The Gaza crisis is threatening the Israeli leader's domestic credibility -- and could short-circuit his West Bank withdrawal plan.
Israel's uncertain revolution
Tuesday's general election was one of the most momentous in Israel's 58-year history. So why didn't the voters care?
The end of the Sharon era
Once despised by a generation of Israelis, Ariel Sharon became a venerated father figure. His passing from the political scene leaves the future of the Middle East in even greater doubt.
Ariel Sharon's toughest battle?
With the Israeli prime minister facing tough criminal investigations, the Mideast cease-fire serves his political needs very well -- for now.
A wall of hostility
More than 200,000 Palestinians live in East Jerusalem and share many of Israel's freedoms. But the arrest of a Hamas cell there has exposed a deep, angry divide.

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