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Many right-wing Israelis see Iran as posing an existential threat to the Jewish state, and they embrace McCain's hawkish "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran" stance. But as Yossi Beilin, a leftwing politician, told reporters: "A real friend [of Israel] is someone who will make an effort to bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The question is if McCain is that...
...Attorney General Menachem Mazuz plans to conduct a hearing in the next few days before deciding on whether to proceed with the indictment. But legislators and women's groups on Tuesday called for the president to resign; otherwise, they say they will impeach him. Yossi Beilin, leader of the leftist Meretz Party, said: "The damage that has been done to this institution over the last few months is so great that only his immediate resignation can assist the institution's immediate recovery." Israel's presidency is a symbolic rather than an executive position, but it's precisely because the president...
...Former Israeli Justice Minister Yossi Beilin wrote this week that "a different (U.S.) administration, in a different situation, would have sent a special envoy to the region who would shuttle between Syria, Gaza and Jerusalem, trying to calm things down, threatening, promising, fuming - all in order to end the crisis." Instead, he continued, "The worsening violent conflict in the Middle East is a blatant reflection of the weakness of the American partner. At the moment of truth, when Israel needs a powerful third party capable of moving things in the area, it turns out that little beyond the repetitive recitation...
...Will Get Yukos? What happens when a company can't pay its bills but is legally barred from selling its parts? Ask fallen oil giant Yukos, the erstwhile flagship of Russia 's economy. "We can expect bankruptcy before the end of 2004," Yuri Beilin, vice chairman of Yukos' board, announced last week, after a Moscow court upheld a Tax Ministry demand that Yukos must pay $3.5 billion in alleged back taxes for 2000. Another court upheld a previous ruling that froze Yukos' Swiss bank accounts worth $5 billion...
Bush should encourage the kind of hard thinking that eventual negotiations will require, while, at the same time, preparing moderates on both sides for the concessions that their leadership must one day trade for peace. By bolstering the bi-national peace movement that Beilin and Rabbo represent, and by promoting creative solutions like the Geneva Accord, Bush’s work today may rescue future negotiations when they sag like a heavy load—before peace explodes...