Word: barak
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...recent years, Gush Shalom has found itself more isolated in supporting its cause. This is due in part, Averny said , to the moderate policies of Ehud Barak, Israel’s prime minister from...
Avnery believes that therefore “practically everyone in Israel says ‘Barak has offered them everything and they have rejected everything. This means that the Palestinians and Arafat never really wanted peace...
...element in Israel's antiterrorist strategy for years has been to eliminate them. Israelis not only killed Palestinians to avenge attacks like the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre but went after operational brains as well. In 1973 an Israeli commando team, which included then-future Prime Minister Ehud Barak--disguised as a woman--wiped out several top Palestine Liberation Organization leaders in a raid in Beirut. The Israelis are still at it. A missile attack last month killed Abu Ali Mustafa, the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, as he sat at his desk in Ramallah...
...nothing particularly new about it - a de facto a recognition of the Palestinians' right to statehood has undergirded both U.S. and Israeli policy in the last decade. President Clinton explicitly endorsed the principle late last year, while Israel's last two Labor Party prime ministers, Yitzhak Rabin and Ehud Barak, implicitly accepted it as a basis for the Oslo peace process with the Palestinians. Oslo was based on the premise of a "two-state" solution to the half-century of conflict. At Camp David, Israelis and Palestinians were not negotiating over whether there would be a Palestinian state, but over...
...voided the deal offered to Arafat by his predecessor, Sharon appears to have very little to bring to the political negotiating table. And after a year in which the intifada has demanded heavy sacrifices of Palestinians, Arafat would struggle to settle for any less than he was offered by Barak after Camp David...