Word: barak
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...Israeli general election that would sweep Ariel Sharon into power, Ehud Olmert, then the mayor of Jerusalem and Sharon's right-hand man, explained why the government of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak had been brought down. Olmert pointed out that at the Camp David peace talks Barak had offered the Palestinians almost all of the West Bank and half of Jerusalem. Olmert declared, "This shows that anyone who dares to raise his hand against Jerusalem will be wiped...
...When Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak dared negotiate Jerusalem at Camp David in 2000, then Likud leader Ariel Sharon walked onto the city's Islamic holy sites to symbolically declare his party's determination to keep all of the city in Israeli hands. (Sharon's action touched off a riot that marked the beginning of the Second Intifadah.) Today's Likud leader, Netanyahu, and the party's coalition partners appear as determined as Sharon was to maintain Jerusalem as "Israel's eternal and undivided capital...
Earlier this week, for instance, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak flew to New York to meet with US Mideast Envoy George Mitchell. After the conference, Barak told Israel Radio that he and Mitchell “focused mainly on the need for a comprehensive regional agreement,” and, later, according to The Jerusalem Post, that no Americans really think that “we can stop pregnancies or not build kindergartens where required.” Well, fine. That makes sense enough for the time being. But what happens in 5 years? In 10? In 50? As Ha?...
Settlements, like all cities, experience population growth and the consequent need for civic resources like the kindergartens Barak mentions—that’s hardly the issue at hand. Continued rapid expansion is. And the U.S. should not accept hazy promises that could prolong a rapid rate of Israeli settlement expansion, perhaps the largest current impediment to peace between Israel and its neighbors. It’s one thing for the U.S. to deny in word alone the carte blanche that Israel enjoyed during the Bush administration, and another to take some sort of action. With regard...
...settlers, including Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. Israeli news reports said the Paris meeting was called off after a discussion in Washington between U.S. officials and a Netanyahu aide confirmed that the positions of the two sides were still too far apart to warrant a meeting. Instead, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, the most moderate leader in the ruling coalition, will fly to Washington on Monday in an effort to mediate on the settlement deadlock...