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But Ehud: No Governing Coalition Yet!

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Kadima and Labor: Signed and Sealed

When it happens, an Olmert regime will be but one issue-oriented, like what the Sharon Government evolved into. And their assertion about Bush, US understanding — Totally bogus! MB

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The agreement stipulates, among other things, that the government will move “to shape the permanent borders of the state as a Jewish state with a democratic majority” and promises that “the territory of the Israeli settlement in Judea and Samaria” will be “reduced”. read more

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The Coalition Horse-Trading: The Embarrassment of Israel Before the World …

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Labor and Kadima Set to Sign Coalition Agreement

But, stop the music, Hold the phone;

Update: Labor-Kadima Signing Postponed [Over an issue With the Text of the Agreement]

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Kadima’s spokesman announced on Thursday that Labor and Kadima’s negotiating teams would meet at 3:30 p.m. in Kfar Hamaccabia in order to sign the coalition agreement between the two parties.

Labor Chairman Amir Peretz was finalizing the deal with Interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in their Thursday meeting. In addition to the ministerial portfolios that Labor had already been offered, it was also offered the post of deputy defense minister. read more

Islamic Jihad, al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades Claim Credit for Islamikazi Bomb Attack Killing 9, 66 Injured at Old Central Bus Station, South Tel Aviv; Other Sunday Night/Monday War News …

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9 KILLED IN TEL AVIV BLAST

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Passover terror attack: Huge explosion rattles shawarma stand at old central bus station area in southern Tel Aviv; scores wounded. Suicide bomber identified as Sami Salim Khamad, an Islamic Jihad member.

Terror disrupts Passover celebrations once again: Eight people were killed Monday after a Palestinian suicide bomber detonated himself at a crowded fast food stand near Tel Aviv’s old central bus station, in the city’s southern Neve Sha’anan neighborhood. read more

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Litzman Tries to Alibi Away UTJ’s Role in Expulsion from Gush Katif, Shomron …

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MK Litzman: UTJ Objects to Olmert’s Convergence Plan

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In an interview with Arutz Sheva Radio today, Knesset Member Yaakov Litzman of United Torah Judaism said that his party objects to the Convergence Plan put forward by Ehud Olmert and Kadima. As for the UTJ’s membership in the Sharon administration, which carried out the unilateral withdrawal from Gaza and northern Samaria, Litzman says that it came about only after it was clear that the plan was to be carried out with or without their membership in the coalition. UTJ only joined the government in an attempt to reverse the effect the ultra-secularist Shinui party had on the internal affairs of the nation. read more

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Zahar: “We Are Not the Owners …”

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Zahar: PA is Willing to Talk About Two State Solution

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This blog generally does not give coverage to the insane, maniacal mutterings of an avowed enemy who says one thing in English and another thing in Arabic, makes outrageous and bogus accusations against Israel such as that they sabotaged Gaza by first accusing Israel of contaminating the land in Gaza after the “disengagement”, then accusing Israel of starving them by keeping the crossings closed and now, most recently that the Jews are behind US Christianity, Danish Cartoons and 9/11. read more

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Labor Officials Afraid of Yisrael Beitenu in the Government …

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Labor official: Disengagement Will Lead to Expulsion of Government

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A senior Labor party official said Wednesday that Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will be making a major mistake if he includes Yisrael Beitenu’s Avigdor Lieberman in any coalition.

Olmert is set to receive the official summons from President Moshe Katzav today to form the next government. He has said he will include Lieberman in his new coalition.

“Olmert is acting foolishly,” said the source quoted by Haaretz news service. “In order to bring Lieberman in, he is blurring the guidelines and not mentioning the convergence at all.” read more

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Beneath the Kadima Mindset; Rabin in Reverse: If They’re Not Good Boys, We’ll Just Give Them More …

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Column One: ‘Let’s Ignore Hamas’, by Caroline Glick

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HAMAS’S RISE to power renders it all but impossible to deny the connection between the insurgency in Iraq and the global jihad in general and the Palestinian war with Israel. Indeed, in his first statement as foreign minister, Mahmoud Zahar attacked the US claiming, “America is committing big crimes against the Arab and Islamic countries.”

Yet as Hamas prepares for war on all levels, Israel is about to form a government led either by Kadima or Labor whose politicians insist on pretending that there is no problem here. Kadima’s plan to remove Israeli communities and IDF forces from Judea and Samaria is based on an abject refusal to admit that the areas abandoned will be taken over by Hamas. Furthermore, as Olmert has repeatedly stated, Kadima refuses to acknowledge that Hamas is even a threat to Israel. read more

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