However vibrant, Israel’s democracy is not exactly manageable or predictable, either. But although Prime Minister Ehud Olmert might seek to regain his popular credibility by a major new peace demarche, the two-headed Palestinian Authority, always a dubious partner in the eyes of the Israelis, is now more suspect than ever.
不论表面上如何生气勃勃，以色列的民主也并不是易于管理和预测的。虽然奥尔默特总理力图通过一项新的重大和平方针来重塑其公信力，但双头的巴勒斯坦权力机构（在以色列人眼中向来就是一个可疑的伙伴）现在比以前任何时候都难以信任。