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Likud is bent on settling the territories to ensure their de facto annexation and preclude any exchange of land for peace. If Housing Minister Ariel Sharon had his way, the Trojan horse would be filled with immigrants speaking Russian...
...shown that they could not push Israel or the Jews around. Lobbyists also threatened to turn Jewish financial contributors and voters against recalcitrant Congressmen. Bush, already aware of the arguments of the campaign, was made even more furious by wire reports of statements by Israel's Housing Minister, Ariel Sharon, that Bush, in pursuing peace, had fallen into "an Arab trap...
...fact, terrorism of that type -- the work of nationalist or anarchist groups inside one country -- is not declining as significantly. Such bands, says Israel's leading terrorism expert, Ariel Merari of Tel Aviv University, do not have the means to gather intelligence, forge documents or handle complex explosive devices. "They don't have the manpower to stage attacks that cause a lot of international commotion," he says. But they can and do wreak considerable damage...
...been established in the West Bank, each coinciding with one of Secretary of State James Baker's visits to the region. Last week the Peace Now group charged that the government is secretly planning to build nearly 30,000 additional units in the West Bank and Gaza. Housing Minister Ariel Sharon insists that the figure is closer to 13,000 new units over the next two years -- which will still increase the / Jewish population in the territories about 50%. He has also pledged to double the number of settlers from 12,000 to 24,000 in the Golan Heights, which...
...Unfortunately, that is somewhat like saying the ideal Arab-Israeli solution would be one pleasing to both Ariel Sharon and Yasser Arafat: true enough, but terribly hard to envision. The refugees insist that they will never feel safe in Iraq with Saddam Hussein in power, but the U.S. and its allies are as loath as ever to become enmeshed in the long civil war that may be required to topple the dictator. There seems to be little hope of persuading any of Iraq's neighbors to let in unlimited numbers of Kurds: Syria and Iran, which have large indigenous Kurdish...