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NEWS ABOUT: Ehud Olmert

Ehud Olmert stories: 137 news summaries

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German Press Criticizes Merkel's Palestinian Snub

Papers praise leader's Holocaust treatment, but level accusations of bias

Mar 19, 08 3:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - The German press is praising Chancellor Angela Merkel’s historic visit to Israel and her diplomatic handling of the two countries' shared history, Der Spiegel reports. But Merkel has also been chastised by commentators who feel her focus on German-Israeli unity in remarks yesterday to Israel's parliament gives the impression... More »

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Iran • Israel • Angela Merkel • Germany • Ehud Olmert • Mahmoud Abbas • Israel and Palestinians • George W. Bush

Merkel Holds Cabinet Meeting in Jerusalem

German celebrates Israeli statehood
with 3-day trip

Mar 17, 08 6:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - When Angela Merkel holds her weekly cabinet meeting today, it will meet not in Berlin but in Jerusalem—a special gesture to mark the 60th anniversary of Israeli statehood. Only a few decades ago Israelis marched in protest when the country welcomed its first German ambassador, but now the chancellor... More »

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Israel • Angela Merkel • Germany • Ehud Olmert • Holocaust • Knesset • World War II • Third Reich • Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Israel Scales Back Gaza Offensive

Hamas rocket attacks slow, but Israelis say fighting isn't over

Mar 10, 08 8:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Israel is reining in its Gaza offensive after seeing a big reduction in cross-border rocket fire over the weekend, the BBC reports. But Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said there was no truce in place. “The fighting is ongoing and will at times increase or decrease,” he said,... More »

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Israel • Ehud Olmert • Gaza • Hamas • rocket attacks • Ehud Barak • Israel and Palestinians • Qassam • ceasefire

Israel Approves New
West Bank Homes

Construction will 'undermine peace talks,' Palestinians warn

Mar 10, 08 4:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - Israel has approved plans to begin or complete 750 new homes in the occupied West Bank, posing yet another hurdle to the success of US-brokered Mideast peace talks, Reuters reports. Palestinian leaders immediately condemned the new construction in the Jewish settlement of Givat Ze'ev near Jerusalem. "This will undermine... More »

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Israel • Ehud Olmert • Hamas • West Bank • bombing • Palestinians • Olmert • Mideast peace talks

Abbas Rebuffs Rice on Talks

Rice urges Abbas: don't let extremists win

Mar 5, 08 3:00 AM CST
(Newser) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas refused to commit to resuming peace talks with Israel yesterday despite entreaties from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the New York Times reports. "I call on the Israeli government to halt its aggression so the necessary environment can be created to make negotiations succeed,"... More »

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Bush administration • Israel • Ehud Olmert • Gaza • Mahmoud Abbas • Palestine • Condoleezza Rice • Arab Israeli conflict • peace talks

Abbas Freezes Peace Talks With Israel

Says negotiations won't resume until offensive on Palestinians ends

Mar 2, 08 1:24 PM CST
(Newser) - Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas halted peace talks with Israel today “until [Israeli] aggression is stopped,” Reuters reports. Abbas ordered the suspension of the US-brokered talks as Israel’s Gaza offensive continued and the Palestinian death toll topped 100. But Israeli PM Ehud Olmert showed no sign of relenting,... More »

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Israel • Ehud Olmert • Gaza • Mahmoud Abbas • Palestine • Condoleezza Rice • Palestinians • Arab Israeli conflict • peace talks • Israeli offensive • Palestinian statehood • George W. Bush

Israel Vows to Press Offensive

Five more killed in strike on Hamas prime minister's offices

Mar 2, 08 6:00 AM CST
(Newser) - In the face of blistering UN condemnation, defiant Israeli officials vowed to continue the Gaza offensive as five more people were killed in an air strike on the offices of the Hamas prime minister today. "Israel has no intention of stopping the fight against the terrorist organizations even for... More »

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Israel • Ehud Olmert • Gaza • Hamas • Gaza City • Ban Ki-Moon

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Israel Pounds Hamas Targets in Gaza Strip

Rice voices concern after retaliatory strikes kill militants, baby

Feb 28, 08 11:15 AM CST
(Newser) - Israel hit targets inside the Gaza Strip today, including an apparent warning attack near the Hamas PM's home, after a rocket killed an Israeli student, Reuters reports. Two days of violence have left 17 Palestinians dead, including a 6-month-old baby who died when a strike on a Hamas-run ministry damaged... More »

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Israel • Middle East • Ehud Olmert • Gaza • Hamas • Condoleezza Rice • rocket attacks • Palestinians • Sderot • airstrike

Ariel Sharon
Turns 80 in Coma

No change in former Israeli PM's condition, doctors not optimistic

Feb 27, 08 3:55 AM CST
(Newser) - Former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon turned 80 yesterday, still in a coma from a massive stroke in January 2006. Family members gathered at the hospital to mark the occasion, the Jerusalem Post reports. Among them was his eldest son, Omri, due to start a seven-month jail sentence today for... More »

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Israel • Ehud Olmert • Ariel Sharon • coma • Omri Sharon

Peace Talks Snag
on Jerusalem

Palestinians want to discuss issue Israelis say isn't on the table

Feb 19, 08 6:14 AM CST
(Newser) - Peace talks between Israel and Palestinians were set to resume today as leaders were already entangled in a first major clash: over whether or not they agreed that Jerusalem would be part of the discussion. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has claimed the Palestinians agreed to put off discussing Jerusalem.... More »

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Israel • Ehud Olmert • Gaza • Mahmoud Abbas • Palestine • Hamas • Jerusalem • West Bank • settlement • road map • East Jerusalem • Har Homa • peace talks • settlers • coalition

E. Jerusalem Settlements Rile Palestinians

New Israeli housing
in future capital
creates controversy

Feb 12, 08 12:20 PM CST
(Newser) - The contentious issue of post-Annapolis Israeli settlement has flared up again after the government began construction of hundreds of new homes in East Jerusalem, the putative capital of an independent Palestine. Although PM Ehud Olmert has frozen construction of new homes in the West Bank, the housing minister said today... More »

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Israel • Ehud Olmert • Palestine • Salam Fayyad • East Jerusalem

Peace Deal Unlikely This Year: Israel

Minister sets sights
on 'declaration'
with Palestine

Feb 11, 08 7:06 PM CST
(Newser) - Israel and Palestine probably won't sign a peace deal this year but could agree on a "declaration of principles," a top Israeli minister said today. The announcement by Vice Prime Minister Haim Ramon follows weeks of warnings that a peace treaty could topple Israeli's coalition government, and that... More »

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Israel • Ehud Olmert • Mahmoud Abbas • Palestine • Mideast peace • peace talks • Haim Ramon • declaration of principles

Israeli Report Slams Lebanon War, Spares
PM Olmert

'Grave' failures cited,
but no calls to resign

Jan 30, 08 12:30 PM CST
(Newser) - An Israeli panel cited “grave shortcomings” in its final report on Ehud Olmert’s leadership during the 2006 Lebanon war, but said Israel's PM acted “on substantial grounds" and in what he felt was in the nation’s best interest, the Guardian reports. Olmert, who had expected the... More »

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Israel • Lebanon • Ehud Olmert • Lebanon War • Hezbollah

Impending War Report Could Topple Olmert

Israeli PM steels for harsh criticism of his 2006 conduct in Lebanon

Jan 30, 08 3:36 AM CST
(Newser) - Ehud Olmert is bracing for a vital challenge to his career as prime minister of Israel, when a report damning his conduct in the 2006 Lebanon war is released later today. The report could topple Olmert's precarious coalition government, the Times of London reports. An interim version of the report... More »

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Israel • Lebanon • Ehud Olmert • Lebanon War • Israeli Labor Party • Likud

War Report May Sink Olmert

Foreign minister defies him ahead of Lebanon war conclusions

Jan 27, 08 11:28 AM CST
(Newser) - In three days, Israel's Winograd Committee will release its long-awaited findings on the abortive 2006 war with Lebanon, and the expected drubbing will increase calls for PM Ehud Olmert to resign, Haaretz reports. Foreign minister Tzipi Livni is meeting today with families of fallen soldiers who are calling for Olmert's... More »

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Israel • Lebanon • Ehud Olmert • Winograd Report • Tzipi Livni • Kadima

Israeli Court to Rule on Gaza Blockade

Egypt border remains open, but humanitarian concerns grow

Jan 24, 08 7:49 AM CST
(Newser) - Israel's highest court will conduct an emergency hearing Sunday on suits filed by Palestinian organizations over the blockade that has cut Israeli shipments of fuel and gas to Hamas-controlled Gaza. The border to Egypt remains open, reports Haaretz, after militants in the Gaza Strip blasted open the fence and thousands... More »

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Israel • Ehud Olmert • Gaza • Hamas • Tzipi Livni • Shimon Peres • Gaza Egypt border • Ban Ki-Moon

Israel Loosens Gaza Blockade

'Gaza can walk' says Olmert, upholding the ban on automobile fuel

Jan 21, 08 4:28 PM CST
(Newser) - Israel will loosen its border blockade of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, permitting an EU fuel delivery to pass through, Reuters reports. The shipment, which will allow Gaza’s main power plant to run for a week, includes diesel fuel for generators, cooking gas, and limited supplies of food and medicine.... More »

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Ehud Olmert • Gaza • Hamas • Ehud Barak

Gaza, Israel Spar Over Power Outage, Embargo

Israel resolute amid condemnations, worries situation could spin out of control

Jan 21, 08 8:16 AM CST
(Newser) - Gazans awoke to a second day without its main power plant or fuel as international leaders condemned the “collective punishment of the people of Gaza,” and Israeli PM Ehud Olmert resolutely said Gazans "will walk, without gas for their cars" until their "murderous regime's" rocket attacks... More »

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Israel • Ehud Olmert • Gaza • Hamas • rocket attacks • fuel • humanitarian crisis • Arab Israeli conflict • blockade

Gaza Violence Endangers Peace Talks

Bombs, rockets fly; UN decries
closing of border crossings

Jan 19, 08 9:53 AM CST
(Newser) - Israeli bombs yesterday flattened a Hamas-run ministry on the Gaza Strip, and Israel also shut down Gaza border crossings.Cranking up pressure on Hamas to exert more control over militants who have stepped up rocket attacks, Israel killed at least 34 Palestinians this week, Reuters reports. The Palestinians cautioned that... More »

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Israel • Ehud Olmert • Gaza • Mahmoud Abbas • Palestine • Hamas • Israel and Palestinians

Israel: 'This War Will Not Stop'

What peace talks? Olmert vows to press on until Hamas rockets cease to fly

Jan 17, 08 11:39 AM CST
(Newser) - Israel continued its Gaza offensive unabated today, rejecting ceasefire overtures from Hamas and saying instead that it would fight until rockets stopped flying across its border , the AP reports. “This war will not stop,” said Ehud Olmert. “We will continue to fight the Jihad without concessions.”... More »

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Israel • Ehud Olmert • Gaza • Mahmoud Abbas • Hamas • Mahmoud Zahar • Israel and Palestinians • Arab Israeli conflict

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