Livni and Olmert Wait for Obama

Leon Hadar

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The National Interest - December 10, 2012

http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/livni-olmert-wait-obama-7828

In his dispatch from the annual Saban Forum that took place in Washington last weekend, The New Yorker's editor David Remnick captured the mood among those he described as “Americans with ties to Democratic Administrations” engaging in “despairing hallway talk about the state of Israeli politics—the stark contrast between the vitality of Israeli economic, cultural, and academic life, and the miserable state of its political culture, the poverty of skill, talent, and imagination.” According to Remnick, the centrist and center-left Israeli politicians that took part in the conference, including Ehud Olmert, Ehud Barak, and Tzipi Livni, “were so obviously in the eclipse” and “their sense of defeat and frustration was distinct.”