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Tel Aviv, Israel -- Ehud Olmert is an experienced politician, but an inexperienced Prime Minister. His defense Minister, Amir Peretz, a skillful trade unionist, is even more of an amateur in security matters. The combination of the two proved to be a recipe for disaster.
Tel Aviv, Israel -- Except for the areas in northern Israel, which are within the range of Hezbollah missiles so residents are in shelters, life in the rest of the country is as usual. Tonight, for example, I will go to a theater in Tel Aviv. People are worried, of course. The stock exchange took a plunge of nearly 5% (mostly because foreign investors withdrew money from Israeli banks while the U.S. dollar went up -- making it probably the only place on earth). People's concerns focus on the future. What will happen next? How can escalation be prevented?
Tel Aviv, Israel - Yes. Israel must and will be a safer place once this war and the crisis are over and resolved with a durable ceasefire and tangible security arrangements in place. The Western world will be safer.
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