Word: ariel
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...renewed intifada in the West Bank and Gaza reached 161 Monday - all but 12 of them Arab - the prime minister elected on promises of completing the peace process started by Yitzhak Rabin found himself fighting for his political life Monday, having failed to form an emergency unity government with Ariel Sharon's hawkish Likud party. Israel's parliament reconvened Monday with Barak at the head of an embattled minority coalition warning that the window for pursuing the peace process was closing and that talks could only be resumed if the Palestinians end their demonstrations. The Israeli leader now finds himself...
...story seems to begin on Sept. 28, when Israeli hard-liner Ariel Sharon decided to pay a provocative visit to the Jerusalem site both Jews and Muslims hold most holy. But that's only the last chapter in a crisis that traces its roots back to Maryland, at Camp David, in July...
...Middle East violence began with skirmishes after Israeli superhawk Ariel Sharon visited the disputed holy site in old Jerusalem, escalated with the gut-wrenching televised death of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy shot as his father tried to shelter him, and then erupted when seething Palestinians (whom Yasser Arafat seemed at first unwilling and then unable to control) murdered and mutilated two Israeli soldiers. Prime Minister Ehud Barak ordered a military retaliation, which halted his lonely reach, or perhaps overreach, for a comprehensive peace...
...over again, would you have let Ariel Sharon go up to the Temple Mount...
...idea of what their mini-state ought to look like. The suggestion may have prompted Yasser Arafat to tell the media that Barak could "go to hell," but the Israeli leader's reconciliation efforts right now are directed not at the Palestinians, but at the hawkish Likud party leader, Ariel Sharon. In order to stave off political collapse, Barak wants Sharon alongside him in a national unity government when Israel's parliament reconvenes next Sunday. And by scrapping the peace process, Barak appears to have met Sharon's price...