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When union firebrand Amir Peretz snatched the leadership of Israel's Labor Party last week, he sent a shock through the country's political system. Labor, the traditional bastion of the Israeli élite, has been in sharp decline since its last Prime Minister, Ehud Barak, was defeated by Ariel Sharon in 2001. Now Peretz, a Moroccan-born resident of one of Israel's poorest towns, promises to revitalize Labor by shaking things up even more...
...Peretz's 10 years heading the Histadrut, Israel's labor federation, he squeezed successive governments with general strikes and, after a falling out with Barak, formed a breakaway faction in parliament. It was the grass-roots devotion of union activists and the faction's supporters that earned him his surprise win last week. Peretz promises a more conciliatory approach to the Palestinians than Sharon's. Opponents lampooned him during the campaign, saying it was impossible to imagine the roughhewn Peretz meeting with President Bush to discuss the peace process. But Peretz told TIME that he'll cut out the middleman...
...rewarding [acts of] terrorism†that have occurred in the intervening years. Addressing the difficulties of the peace process, he said that the kind of difficult compromise required is “hard for democracies to make.†He said that former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak relied on continuous polling data throughout the Camp David talks before offering anything for negotiation. Dershowitz finished his talk by highlighting Israel’s strategic interests. Claiming that Israel could “ignore the Palestinian problem†if it chose to do so, he emphasized that...
...difference between Sharon and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who tried to negotiate a peace deal with Yasser Arafat, is that Sharon will not tolerate any bombing or shooting while negotiations are under way. The cease-fire that Abbas has arranged with Palestinian militant groups is not good enough because those independent groups may begin shooting at any time. Perhaps, as an incentive for Abbas to bring the militants under his control, Sharon could propose shortening the implementation time of a peace agreement, if one can be reached. Sam Einhorn Montreal...
...absence of non-violent channels of expressing political and national anger and aspirations creates a certain inevitability about terrorism. Ask the Israelis: During his successful 1999 campaign to become prime minister of Israel, Ehud Barak shared this startling observation with the Israeli daily Haaretz: "I imagine that if I were a Palestinian of the right age, I would, at some stage, have joined one of the terror organizations...