Word: ariel
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...renewed anger both among ordinary Palestinians and particularly on the streets of the Arab capitals, bringing renewed pressure on Arab leaders to take a tougher stance against Israel. The current intifada began with a series of clashes on the Temple Mount following a controversial visit by then-opposition leader Ariel Sharon, and it is likely to be reinvigorated by the latest showdown...
Israeli officials have long been accustomed to having to take extra security precautions when traveling abroad. But a new threat is keeping some of them - possibly even Prime Minister Ariel Sharon - away from certain countries altogether. The latest menace, though, comes not in the form of terrorists, but of lawyers...
...site is a mess of competing religious claims, conflicting historical narratives and violent reactions to seemingly sinister symbolic actions. Some popular media accounts blame this issue as the straw that broke the camel’s back at last summer’s failed Camp David talks, and Ariel Sharon’s controversial visit to the site last September sparked the latest pattern of violence in the region...
...Human rights law has never been at the center of the conduct of foreign affairs, and Kissinger and others believe it could have a destabilizing effect. For example, there are efforts currently underway in Belgian courts to indict Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon over the 1982 massacre of Palestinian refugees at the Sabra and Shatila camps in Beirut - for which a 1983 Israeli government inquiry found Sharon "indirectly responsible." The Israelis may dismiss this as a propaganda exercise, but if the rules of immunity and cross-border prosecution begin to change, such endeavors could complicate efforts to mediate conflicts, critics...
...killed in an Israeli rocket attack and two car bombs detonated deep inside Israel appeared to render the discussion moot, and the more immediate countdown now may be the one that ends with the collapse of the U.S.-brokered cease-fire, which will be followed by a race between Ariel Sharon, Yasser Arafat and Secretary of State Colin Powell to be the first to say "I told...