Sunday, May 25, 2008

Israel: Peace--Yes, Olmert--No

At Pajamas Media, Lisa Goldman writes:

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s revelation of efforts to negotiate a possible peace agreement between Syria and Israel has kept the Israeli media very busy for the past few days. Editors are having a fabulous time with banner headlines and the commentators are churning out page upon page of political analysis.

But while the media is taking the story seriously, the Israeli public is not.

Israeli public is both terribly confused and deeply cynical. According to an article published today in the weekend magazine of Yedioth Aharonoth, two-thirds of the populations wants negotiations with Syria - but at the same time two-thirds oppose having Prime Minister Olmert lead the negotiations.
That's pretty pathetic. Kadima's victory in the elections was supposed to be a mandate to bring about something like this, yet Olmert is not trusted to get the job done.

Read the whole thing.

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