Word: ariel
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...Israeli PM Ariel Sharon had the lights in his home turned off because...
...their commanders vowing that they could stay for months. Then Colin Powell spoke, condemning the Israeli reaction to a Palestinian provocation as "excessive and disproportionate" - and within hours the Israelis had retreated. Asked whether the U.S. criticism has influenced the decision, Dore Gold, an adviser to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, told CNN, "We pay very close attention to statements made by the United States and they're very important to us." Other Israeli leaders said the retreat had been ordered even before the U.S. statement, but the impression remained that Washington had cried foul, and Israel had retreated...
...Branegan: I think the Israelis had for a while now been pushing the edge of the envelope as to what would be acceptable to Washington, and when they went into Gaza they finally found out where it is. Powell's response has given Prime Minister Ariel Sharon a pretty good idea of where the U.S. draws the line. Washington has in the past criticized some actions of the Sharon government, such as its announcement that it plans to expand settlements in the West Bank, but for the most part Sharon has had a pretty free ride and warm reception. That...
TIME.com: With Ariel Sharon ratcheting up the military pressure on the Syrians and Palestinians, are there any signs of dissent from the Labor party members of his unity government...
...been easy, during Ariel Sharon's election campaign, to dismiss as alarmist - even hysterical - his opponent's warnings that the old soldier would plunge Israel back into war. But Monday's bombing of a Syrian position in Lebanon, coming on top of three weeks of escalated military activity against the Palestinians, certainly suggests that Israeli reservists shouldn't be too surprised if they find themselves spending more time with their units in the near future. Three Syrian soldiers were reported killed and a number were injured in the air strike on a Syrian radar facility near Beirut, bombed in retribution...