Word: ariel
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...other major theme of Week 5 at war was that hardy perennial, Middle East peace. There was Tony Blair in Washington cajoling President Bush, and Israel withdrawing from recently reoccupied West Bank towns. But the Israeli media was seized by reports that foreign minister Shimon Peres was urging Ariel Sharon to come up with a long-term peace plan of his own, rather than be forced to respond to anyone else's. The Jerusalem Post reported mounting domestic opposition to a Sharon-Peres peace proposal from both the left and the right. The Labor Party rank-and-file is pushing...
...Zibri had gained relevance even before their murders. When Ze'evi died, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, working to preserve his national unity government, was trying to persuade Ze'evi to withdraw his resignation, tendered two days before. Under Zibri's leadership, P.F.L.P. activists had begun to sit on intifadeh action committees in each Palestinian town alongside leaders of the radical Islamic groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which don't share the P.F.L.P.'s secular ideology but do share the desire to kill Israelis. Despite this activity, Zibri, as the P.F.L.P. leader, continued to sit on the executive committee of Arafat...
...irrational, of people (or nations) with a passionate sense of the rightness of their cause and the perfidy of their enemies. Bush was reminded of that twice last week. Rehavam Ze'evi, an Israeli Cabinet minister, was assassinated by Palestinian gunmen, an act to which Prime Minister Ariel Sharon reacted as if it were the attacks on Washington and New York City. U.S. officials frankly admit that their power to restrain Israeli fury is less than it was during the Gulf War, 10 years...
ISRAEL A String of Assassinations The assassinations of Israeli cabinet minister Rehavam Ze?evi and at least three Palestinian militants marked a fresh escalation of hostilities. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon blamed Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat for the killing of Israel?s hard-line Tourism Minister at a Jerusalem hotel and demanded that he hand over those responsible. Israeli troops reoccupied West Bank towns and a 10-year-old girl was among those killed by tank fire. The death of a Palestinian militant, Atef Abayat, in a car-bomb explosion in Bethlehem was seen as part of the Israeli response...
After a Palestinian assailant murdered Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze’evi two weeks ago, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon gave Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Yasser Arafat a stark choice: hand over the murderers or pay the price. In the days since the first-ever assassination of a cabinet minister by a Palestinian, Arafat has not sufficiently cooperated with Israel in tracking down, arresting and handing over the suspects...