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Realizing that Barak wouldn't budge, Assad pivoted and agreed that the boundary line would be an item of negotiation, not a precondition. Israeli Justice Minister Yossi Beilin predicted that a peace treaty could be signed in "a matter of months...
...AVIV, Israel: Labor has a new point man. Early projections indicate that Ehud Barak is the runaway winner in Labor's primary election over outspoken dove Yossi Beilin and two others. Barak, 55, is a charismatic former military chief whose career and politics closely resemble those of the late Yitzhak Rabin. Much like Rabin in his own 1992 primary against Shimon Peres, Barak ran less on policy than on the promise that he alone could unseat Benjamin Netanyahu as Prime Minister and return Labor to power. His party has long shared Barak's optimism. In April, at the height...
...opposition Labor Party--have the right to petition the Supreme Court to order a reconsideration of charges against Netanyahu. Smelling blood, Labor politicians are hammering hard on the government's obvious ethical lapses. "He has lost the moral ground to govern Israel," argues aspiring Labor leader Yossi Beilin. "We are now trying to topple the government." Huddling in their party sanctum, Labor bosses have decided to crank up the pressure with pickets and street demonstrations. Shimon Peres, who was hoping to resume national leadership by joining in a unity government with Netanyahu, called for the Prime Minister's immediate resignation...
...sides. Is Assad really interested in a peace agreement? If so, shouldn't he being keeping Lebanon quiet to avoid causing problems for Peres, who is more interested in peace treaties than opposition candidate Benjamin Netanyahu and his rightist Likud? Does this outbreak mean, as Israeli Cabinet minister Yossi Beilin suggested in Washington last week, that Assad is not really committed to a negotiated agreement...
...newly installed Prime Minister Shimon Peres, 72, named a group of younger politicians to his Cabinet while retaining the key Defense Ministry post as his own. Ehud Barak, 53, the former Interior Minister, was appointed Foreign Minister, the job held by Peres under slain Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Yossi Beilin, 47, was named Minister in the Prime Minister's Office, a new position that will enable him to administer the peace with the Palestinians...