Word: ariel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...compromise on the vexed question of settlement construction in the West Bank and Gaza. The current cease-fire proposals in both the Mitchell report and an initiative from Egypt and Jordan both require a freeze on construction of Israeli settlements as a prelude to talks. While Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, longtime champion of the settlement movement, rejects the idea of acceding to a settlement freeze, his government has moved to find a compromise. Initially, they suggested settlement expansion would be confined to "natural growth" of existing settlements; now Foreign Minister Shimon Peres has added the rider that no further Palestinian...
TIME.com: Israel has in recent days launched sustained attacks on Palestinian Authority targets throughout the West Bank and Gaza, saying these are a "pro-active" response to continuing Palestinian attacks. What is Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's strategy...
...Israelis have rallied behind Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's promises of tough measures to restore security. But while the measures get tougher, the security menace to daily life in Israel and particularly on its settlements in the West Bank and Gaza shows little sign of abating. A low-key state of war is once again becoming a way of life for the Jewish State, and that may take a heavy toll on its morale after the optimism...
...while his predecessor was prepared to negotiate away many of the settlements, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has historically been a fierce advocate of the settlement movement for both security and ideological reasons. And on Tuesday he flatly rejected Washington's call to freeze settlement activity as one of the requirements for a cease-fire with Palestinians. Sharon built his political career in large part as a champion of the settlers, and although he accepted a freeze on building new settlements as a condition for getting the Labor Party into his unity government, he is committed to an aggressive expansion...
...visit to the Golan Heights area may have been designed to dramatize his plea for peace, but nobody's expecting any movement on that front any time soon. Whereas his predecessors were prepared to consider trading the Heights for a peace agreement and elaborate security guarantees, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon insists that holding onto the territory remains a strategic imperative for Israel - and he?ll take Assad?s "Christ-killer" rhetoric as further evidence of Syria's implacable hostility. And if he can't have the Heights back, Assad isn't much interested in peace, either...