Olmert Agrees To Hold Early Primaries

The embattled prime minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert, agreed on Wednesday to hold primaries in his centrist Kadima Party by late September, averting a looming political crisis and gaining a few months' reprieve for himself and his governing coalition -- but also paving the way to his possible ouster before the end of the year.

The agreement, reached in overnight talks between Kadima and its main coalition partner, the Labor Party, led to the suspension of a bill that could have dissolved the current Parliament and led to early general elections. It had been scheduled for preliminary reading on Wednesday.

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Comments

[HumeSkeptic]

This will change nothing. Israel needs a leader who really wants peace for Israeli citizens and justice for Palestinians.

[AdamWykle]

Israel wants Olmert out because he's about to make peace with the Palestinians and all over Israel's neighbors. This neighborhood bully makes a profit out of picking on the rest, look at their vital and booming war industry. And so the cycle starts again.

This is expected, to say the least.

[marymansour]

Whoa, I smell Benjamin Netanyahu coming on. A real hawk who will try to push for an attack on Iran. Whoosh!

[PKSSK]

Looks like change is needed in the US and Israel with both leaders being very unpopular. Maybe peace will truly be in the air if both countries can remove the two war mongers.

[bayside]

I would bet that most of israel is peace loving and knows they have crazies in charge just like US. Looks like they are desperate to relieve him of his duties just as we are trying to stop our crazies ...Peace will win..Watch..

[darthdarcy]

Olmert being so unpopular and the same being true for Bush, is a dangerous thing for Israel and American, and the Middle East and even World Peace..!