http://dir.salon.com/topics/ehud_olmert/?source=rss&aim=ehud_olmert en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT By Gregory Levey Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/08/21/influencing_israel/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/08/21/influencing_israel/index.html?source=rss Are Israeli politicians increasingly beholden to conservative Americans who lavish them with financial support and political pressure? By Aluf Benn Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/07/24/obama_in_israel/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/07/24/obama_in_israel/index.html?source=rss He got a rock-star reception here, but an intriguing question lingers: Which U.S. presidential candidate is better for this country? By David Grossman Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/02/11/israel/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/02/11/israel/index.html?source=rss Israel's disastrous Second Lebanon War showed we've become an existential danger to ourselves. Our future depends on fundamental change. By Gary Kamiya Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2008/01/29/gaza/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2008/01/29/gaza/index.html?source=rss 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. By Gregory Levey Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/12/13/jerusalem/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/12/13/jerusalem/index.html?source=rss A new coalition of religious hard-liners with ties to President Bush seeks to scuttle any plans for dividing Jerusalem between Israelis and Palestinians. By Aluf Benn Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/11/26/two_state/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/11/26/two_state/index.html?source=rss President Bush's peace summit for Israelis and Palestinians ignores a painful truth -- one that we are already living in the Middle East. By Gregory Levey Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/07/03/olmert/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/07/03/olmert/index.html?source=rss 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. By Joe Conason Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2007/04/06/pelosi_syria/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2007/04/06/pelosi_syria/index.html?source=rss Why neocons are so apoplectic about the speaker's visit to Syria. By Gary Kamiya Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2007/04/03/mideast_peace/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2007/04/03/mideast_peace/index.html?source=rss While Bush and Olmert cling to their hard line, hope for an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is slipping away forever. By Sidney Blumenthal Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2006/08/17/bush/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2006/08/17/bush/index.html?source=rss With U.S. support, Israeli unilateralism was unfurled. The nation's security has never been so endangered, or its moral authority so tarnished. By Aluf Benn Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/08/14/benn_olmert/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/08/14/benn_olmert/index.html?source=rss Having failed on the battlefield, Israelis question their leadership and their national direction. By Aluf Benn Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/07/01/gaza/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/07/01/gaza/index.html?source=rss The Gaza crisis is threatening the Israeli leader's domestic credibility -- and could short-circuit his West Bank withdrawal plan. By Aluf Benn Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/03/31/elections/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/03/31/elections/index.html?source=rss Tuesday's general election was one of the most momentous in Israel's 58-year history. So why didn't the voters care? By Aluf Benn Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/01/07/sharon/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/01/07/sharon/index.html?source=rss 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. By Aluf Benn Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/08/13/sharon/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/08/13/sharon/index.html?source=rss With the Israeli prime minister facing tough criminal investigations, the Mideast cease-fire serves his political needs very well -- for now. By Ferry Biedermann Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/08/24/jerusalem/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/08/24/jerusalem/index.html?source=rss 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.