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...Olmert and Peretz have displayed a determiniation that was sorely lacking in previous governments," reads a front-page editorial this morning in the Hebrew-language newspaper Ma'ariv. That's significant praise, given the concerns within Israel that greeted the cabinet formed by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Olmert is clearly the man on the spot in the current outbreak of hostilities with Hizballah and the ongoing operations in Gaza. But perhaps the most surprising aspect of the current crisis is that a one-time member of Peace Now, a champion of social welfare issues and a negotiated two-state solution...
...extreme right, to take a tougher line on Arab terrorism. Kahane, who advocates expulsion of all Arabs from Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, is gaining popularity, as is Tehiya, a small, right-wing party. A poll printed at week's end by the daily newspaper Ma'ariv showed that if elections were held today, Kahane's Kach Party would increase its seats in the Knesset from one to five, while Tehiya would go from five to nine. Kahane, whose anti-Arab views strike a responsive chord in many working-class Sephardic Jews from Muslim countries, is openly...
...form a Labor-run government, a threat that has some support among Labor Party members. With the withdrawal of the Israeli army from southern Lebanon almost complete and the state of the economy gradually improving, Peres' popularity is rising. A recent poll in the newspaper Ma 'ariv found that 47.2% of those questioned support Peres, up from 42.4% in January and 27.9% last August. However, relations between the Labor Party and the Likud bloc, which have been tense under the unprecedented power-sharing arrangement, reached an all-time low as a result of the so-called Weizman affair...
...came quickly. Two months after I met Mohammed, the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv printed a deck of cards showing 34 Hamas leaders targeted for assassination. Mohammed, his face a blank silhouette, was the jack of spades, No. 9 on the list. Two days later, an Israeli Apache helicopter gunship located Mohammed's walkie-talkie as he sat in a car about 100 yards from where I had met him. "It was his one hobby, to swim," Mohammed's brother later told me. "His fate was to die by the sea." The helicopter launched at least three Hellfire missiles...
This year, he will receive the Right Livelihood Award in Stockholm, Sweden. The award has sometimes been called the “Alternative Nobel Peace Prize.” Avnery currently serves as a columnist for Ma-ariv, Israel’s second largest newspaper...