Germany's foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has voiced concern that Israel's domestic political issues may throw the Mideast peace process off track.
Steinmeier was referring to calls for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to resign amid corruption allegations. On Wednesday, Israeli defence minister Ehud Barak said that if Olmert did not step down, he would take his Labour party out of the governing coalition. Olmert has since said that Arab League heads to Lebanon ...
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Israel's 60 years ... he will not resign. Steinmeier is expected to begin a Mideast tour on Saturday. He is set to meet the new Lebanese president, Michel Suleiman, in Beirut before travelling to Israel.
(Deutsche Welle)
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