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Report: Obama Favors Saudi Initiative

(IsraelNN.com) United States President-Elect Barack Obama will support the Saudi Initiative for peace between Israel and Arab nations, the British Sunday Times reported Sunday. Obama told Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, “The Israelis would be crazy not to accept this initiative,” according to the Times.

The initiative calls on Israel to withdraw completely to its 1949 borders in exchange for normalized relations with Arab League countries. It includes a full retreat from the eastern half of Jerusalem, including the Temple Mount, and from the Golan.

The battle for Jerusalem is on. We are coming close to the end of the "piece process." Further proof is the disintegration of Ariel Sharon's party, Kadima.

(IsraelNN.com) MK Ze'ev Elkin formally announced Sunday morning that he is leaving Kadima for the upcoming election. He explained that Kadima Chairwoman Tzipi Livni had become too leftist for him.

...several former Likud members who joined Kadima now wish to return to the Likud.

...Some key non-politicians have also lost faith in Kadima - and some have re-joined the Likud. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's nephew Ya'ir Olmert has left Kadima, and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livny's brother Eli - a Galilee surveyor and a Lt.-Col. in the reserves - announced this week that he was leaving Kadima and returning to the Likud.

As long as Sharon is still not in the ground and Kadima is still holding his chair for him, it is as if he is still alive. The fact that Tsipi Livni could not form a government is also proof that their days are numbered. This "game" is in overtime.

"After the Sharon government, the Moshiach will come" -- so foresees the Tzaddik, the G-dly Harav Yitzchok Kaduri, shlita. His words were reported in the Israeli newspaper Yediot Achronot.