Olmert and Livni at the precipice

Prime Minister Ehud K. Olmert and Foreign Minister Tzipi Feigele Livni have once again pulled off a bit of 'diplomacy' that has brought Israel to the precipice of a steep diplomatic cliff.In meetings yesterday with a visiting US congressional delegation, Olmert neither opposed nor favored the massive US arms sale to the Saudis, nor did he demand any protections as the US had originally put into