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...newspapers," he muttered. When there's breathing space between the bombings, Mitzna isn't so reserved. During an often nasty primary campaign, he cast himself as a provincial outsider who promised to "clean out the bullshit culture" of the Labor Party. He wants to bring back people like Yossi Beilin, an architect of the Oslo peace process who withdrew during Ben-Eliezer's reign. He welcomed warm remarks about his election from Arafat, who's utterly demonized by most Israelis now. Though he's married to a Bible teacher, he risked alienating religious voters by admitting that he doesn...
...Hamas declared that radical Islamic and secular factions had agreed to coordinate efforts. Another extremist group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, announced that "every Israeli--inside and outside Israel--is a target." Even some Israelis thought Sharon's Ramallah venture would only worsen matters. Said Yossi Beilin, a member of Israel's center-left Labor party, which is part of Sharon's coalition: "Retaliation will not stop suicide bombings. It will increase them...
...Israel's traumatized peace camp has recently begun showing signs of renewed life and political self-confidence - and it has begun to restore relations with its Palestinian counterparts. Just last week, former negotiator Yossi Beilin tried to persuade the Labor Party to walk out of Sharon's unity government on the grounds that the prime minister lacks a strategy to restore peace. The bid failed, but dovish Labor leaders are becoming more forthright in their criticisms - Deputy Defense Minister Dalia Rabin-Pelosoff recently lamented that the government had failed to take advantage of the "window of opportunity" for restoring dialogue...
...candy corn, he public gobbled it up. If he never achieved the acceptance of Jerome Kern, George Gershwin or Richard Rodgers, well, hell, they needed someone else to write their lyrics; Berlin did it all himself. If he seemed an immigrant all-American, that's because he was: Israel Beilin, born in a Russian shtetl, brought to the U.S. at five and, for another few years, ignorant of the language whose emotional and musical contours he would help define...
...With passionate reactions on both side, you need a third party,” Beilin said...