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...friend to Palestinians. He represented the far-right of the Israeli Knesset; he unabashedly suggested “voluntary transfer” of Palestinians out of the West bank and Gaza strip and of Yassir Arafat, the chairman of the Palestinian Authority, to Tunisia. He criticized Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for being too soft on Palestinians after Sharon loosened control over two West Bank villages. In fact, in light of these grievances, Ze’evi resigned from the Israeli Parliament on Monday, a move that was scheduled to take effect Tuesday afternoon. If this extremist position is quite...
...assassination of Rehavam Zeevi couldn't have come at a worse moment - for Ariel Sharon, for Yasser Arafat, and for President George Bush. The radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said Wednesday it had killed the right-wing defector from Ariel Sharon's cabinet to avenge the assassination of its own leader by Israel earlier this year. But the timing revealed a deeper agenda...
ISRAEL Sharon Irks the U.S. as a Truce Crumbles In a week that saw the softening of U.S. pronouncements on the Middle East, both Israel and militant Palestinians trashed a week-long cease-fire, and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon engaged in a war of words with Washington. Israeli troops launched deadly raids on Hebron and the Gaza Strip in reprisal for two attacks that killed five Israelis. Sharon infuriated Washington with an accusation that the U.S. was seeking to appease Arab states to gain support for its international coalition. President Bush earlier appeared to endorse the notion of an independent...
...Ariel Sharon warmly commended Rudy Giuliani on Friday for showing "real leadership and consistent support of the State of Israel." The Israeli prime minister was applauding the New York mayor's rejection of a $10 million disaster-relief donation from Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal - Giuliani had been incensed by the prince's statement that U.S. Middle East policy had been among the issues that led to the Sept. 11 attack...
...Despite Powell's repeated assurances that Israel's security remains of paramount importance to Washington, much of his vision is profoundly unpalatable to Ariel Sharon. Sharon fought tooth-and-nail against Oslo's land-for-peace trade, and believes Israel's survival depends on holding much of the land it currently occupies in the West Bank. And it was to underline his rejection of sharing Jerusalem that he marched up the Temple Mount with a thousand police and troops just over a year ago, setting off protests that Palestinian leaders quickly turned into the current intifada...