In August, Ehud Olmert’s partners in peace plotted to murder him.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday that Israel would “not look the other way” on a plot by a terrorist cell from PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah faction to attack his convoy earlier this year in the West Bank city of Jericho.

However, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayad on Sunday said Olmert was never seriously threatened by an assassination plot by Palestinian militants and promised to do his best to rein in West Bank gunmen.

“There was nothing imminently dangerous,” Fayad said as he arrived for a meeting in Jerusalem with Israeli officials. “We are trying the very best we can to bring law and order to the cities, villages and areas that are under our control.”

Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin told cabinet members Sunday that the Fatah cell had planned to carry out the attack as the convoy entered the West Bank city on August 6, en route to the prime minister’s meeting with Abbas.

Israeli security sources said the cell planned to fire on the convoy, and had made preliminary preparations for the attack, which primarily included intelligence gathering.

According to the sources, the terrorists were members of the PA security forces, and therefore knew the convoy’s route as well as security arrangements.

I’m sure all these high-spirited hijinx will stop as soon as they have their own well-deserved state!

Assassination plots make Olmert a bit uncomfortable, but apparently not so uncomfortable that he doesn’t want to give the Palestinians a state, Jerusalem, and the Temple Mount.

The Palestinian Authority’s conduct towards the suspects in the plot to assassinate him is “a source of discomfort,” Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday before he left Israel for France.