Word: barak
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...Ehud Barak should be worried -- not about any domestic threat, but by U.S. and Arab expectations of his peacemaking abilities. So heady is the atmosphere surrounding Barak?s succession to the stonewalling Benjamin Netanyahu that President Clinton even suggested Thursday that Palestinian refugees should be allowed to live wherever they choose. A noble enough sentiment, but one that was nimbly retracted by the State Department, who may be more mindful of the fact that most Palestinian refugees originally fled homes in what is now Israel. But the episode reflects a mounting problem for Barak. "U.S.-Israel relations may face...
...Ehud Barak, Prime Minister-Elect of Israel White Knight, Inheritor, Thinker, Healer, Difference-Splitter...
...peacemaking, and now he?s bowing out as Israel?s prime minister with both guns blazing. Israeli warplanes pounded targets in Beirut and north Lebanon overnight Friday following a rocket attack on Israel by the Islamic guerrilla movement Hezbollah, and warned of more to come. Incoming prime minister Ehud Barak was not consulted on the decision, and he may prefer it that way. "Making peace with Syria, which controls Lebanon, is Barak?s priority, and he?s not going to let skirmishes with Hezbollah get in the way," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "Distancing himself from the decision...
...proxy, the South Lebanon Army, which killed a Lebanese civilian. That sequence underlines the volatile situation in South Lebanon. But though bombing Beirut may be designed to put pressure on Lebanon to rein in Hezbollah, Israel knows the key to peace in the area is Syria. Still, if Barak needs a bad cop, Netanyahu?s only too happy to oblige...
...Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak promised to pull Israel out of its Lebanon quagmire in a year; Israel's local proxy army may not wait that long. The South Lebanon Army, which was created by Israel in 1985 to help patrol its self-declared "security zone" inside southern Lebanon, withdrew from the Jezzine enclave Monday, under fire from Hezbollah guerrillas as they went. With the local SLA commander acknowledging that the withdrawal was prompted by mounting casualties at the hands of Hezbollah, the retreat is a significant victory for the Iran-backed movement's protracted war of attrition. Israel...