Convergence “Put to Bed”: Exist Left, Stage Right; Talks with “Palestinians (sic)” …

PM Says Unilateral West Bank Pullout Now Off the Agenda

Excerpt;
MK Ran Cohen (Meretz): Realignment is dead, “understood from Olmert that the idea had been put to bed.”

Liberman Sets 5 Conditions for Israel Our Home to Join Emergency Government

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“Establishment of a national commission of inquiry, commitment to take realignment plan off the government’s agenda, Kadima support to switch to a presidential system, removal of the evacuation of outposts from the agenda, and passing a civil marriage law.”

Olmert: Israel Must Renew Talks with Palestinians

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“Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Monday that Israel needed to restart talks with the Palestinians. ‘We have no more urgent problem than that of the Palestinians,’ Olmert told the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, according to a participant in the meeting.”

Commentary;

The elitist Olmert ilk mindset: If “convergence”, unilateral wihdrawal doesn’t work and is not apporpriate, then we must restart talks with the Palestinians for we must leave the “west bank” by whatever spin or camouflauge available. MB