Ehud Olmert

Pushing right-wing American politics -- in Israel Pushing right-wing American politics -- in Israel

Are Israeli politicians increasingly beholden to conservative Americans who lavish them with financial support and political pressure?
  • The Obama show lands in Israel

    He got a rock-star reception here, but an intriguing question lingers: Which U.S. presidential candidate is better for this country?
  • 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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