In recent weeks, John McCain’s advisers have said that Israeli-Palestinian talks would not be a priority, but Sarah Palin sounded a different note in the vice-presidential debate.
Israelis on the right and left were angered by Ehud Olmert’s suggestion in an interview at the twilight of his term that Israel should cede virtually all its disputed land. Too little, too late, said the leftists. Too much, said the rightists.