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...victims of the Holocaust, denunciation of anti-Semitism and call for mutual respect among Christians and Jews fell short of Israeli expectations of some form of apology for the Vatican's conduct during World War II, but that won't diminish the fact that - as Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak noted in his salutary response - John Paul II has done more in his 22-year papacy than centuries of predecessors to repair Rome's relationship with the Jews, whom the Church had until only too recently vilified as Christ-killers. "He's stopped apologizing and is talking about what ought...
...never say "never" in Israeli politics, which may explain Ehud Barak's apparent flip-flopping on handing over villages near Jerusalem to the Palestinians. The Israeli prime minister on Tuesday backed away from a plan to hand over the ethnically Palestinian Jerusalem suburb of Anata next week, under pressure from his right-wing opposition and even some key elements of his own coalition. But while the retreat had Palestinians and media commentators questioning whether Barak is able to deliver Israeli acceptance of final peace treaties with the Palestinians and with Syria, the maneuver may have been part of a plan...
While domestic politics may appear to have restrained Barak from handing over either Abu Dis or Anata in the interim stage, the very mooting of the idea may have helped prepare the way for their transfer to the Palestinian Authority in a final treaty. "Barak has made clear he plans to eventually hand over both neighborhoods, and now it's only a matter of time," says Klein. "Next time it comes up for discussion, it's unlikely to make the headlines in the same way and the opposition is unlikely to muster the same support for blocking it. The public...
...wish will become a reality. On Sunday, Israel's Cabinet voted unanimously, across party lines, to approve a plan to withdraw troops from the southern Lebanon "security zone" by July. This end to the 15-year occupation by the Israeli Army meets a campaign promise of Prime Minister Ehud Barak--and means relief for Israeli families who live in fear of the call that their child will be sent to Lebanon...
Your move, Mr. Assad. Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak threw down the gauntlet to his Syrian counterpart Sunday, in the form of a cabinet decision to withdraw from south Lebanon by July irrespective of the state of peace negotiations with Syria. And that leaves the Syrian president no easy response on the strategic chessboard of the Mideast's most troubled relationship. "The last thing the Syrians want is a unilateral Israeli withdrawal in Lebanon," says TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott MacLeod, "because that would deprive them of one of their most important cards in negotiations with Israel - Syria...