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Bill Clinton has portrayed the Marc Rich pardon as a favor to Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, citing the imperative of foreign policy to justify his last-minute decision. Had he checked with his own State Department, however, he would have discovered that diplomatic experts rejected a similar plea five years...
...Rich case who have complained they were shut out of the decision. It should be noted that had the State Department received the same request this winter it might have been more sympathetic, since the Clinton administration was at pains to help now defeated Israeli prime minister Barak hold on to office...
...pardon petition to the White House, Rich submitted many supportive letters from Israeli politicians, cultural figures and even former Mossad intelligence officials - a pitch reinforced by three calls from Barak. But the earlier Israeli offensive was not publicly known until the release of the 1997 memo...
...Acting Prime Minister Ehud Barak immediately closed Palestinian areas and his defense minister vowed that Israel would continue to pursue those responsible for planning such attacks - an ominous warning in light of Tuesday's assassination of a lieutenant colonel in Yasser Arafat's security detail in an Israeli helicopter attack. Even more ominous, perhaps, was the sense that Israel and the Palestinians may be entering a new downward spiral of violent conflict...
...elected prime minister last week in the hope that he'd get tough with the Palestinians, but there may not be all that much he could do differently at a tactical level to respond to attacks such as the one that occurred Wednesday - indeed, he's trying to persuade Barak to stay on as his defense minister. Whether that retaliation takes the form of mass punishment of the Palestinians through blockading the West Bank and Gaza, or more targeted efforts such as Tuesday's assassination, it's been done before. And yet the attacks continue...