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JERUSALEM: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to pledge in principle next week to withdraw Israeli troops from the West Bank city of Hebron, but not without changes in the agreement with the Palestinian Authority. TIME's Eric Silver reports that Netanyahu wants to enlarge the area of Hebron under Israeli control and reduce the number of Palestinian security troops in the city of 94,000 Palestinians and 450 Jewish settlers. "Netanyahu can't make these changes unilaterally," Silver says. "Palestinians are extremely reluctant to yield any more land or leverage in Hebron to the Israeli army and settlers." Hebron...
...election of Benjamin Netanyahu six weeks ago as Israel's new prime minister has discouraged some proponents of the ongoing Middle East peace process. Netanyahu has vowed to take a harder line than did his predecessors, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin, on trusting the surrounding Arab nations on security and economic matters...
...President will thoroughly dominate the Administration, and he will treat most of his Cabinet Secretaries like slightly dim distant cousins. In Israel matters have always been different. Ministers there control powerful baronies, and they push hard on the Prime Minister, as do party elders and testy coalition partners. Now Benjamin Netanyahu, who announced his Cabinet last week, is trying to break the old traditions, consolidate power in his own hands and become Israel's first American President-style Prime Minister. He is not finding it easy...
...Make Peace?" appears to be a cynical question with regard to the election of Benjamin Netanyahu [WORLD, June 10]. It is better to revisit the elections of Israeli Prime Ministers like Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir and U.S. Presidents like Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. Against heavy odds, they all surprised the world by opening up new avenues to peace despite their political-campaign rhetoric. Even Yasser Arafat proved that one can work toward peace under proper circumstances and receive a Nobel Peace Prize. Instead of being sarcastic about it, let us congratulate the people of Israel who elected Netanyahu...
...cabin" has surfaced, this time in Jeff Greenfield's piece "I'm Just That Simple" [ESSAY, June 10]. Greenfield does not seem to know that Harrison, my great-great-great-great-granduncle, was a patrician, born into the landed aristocracy of the James River. His father Benjamin was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and the master of Berkeley Plantation. The plantation house in which Harrison was born stands today, open to the public. It bears little resemblance to a log cabin. It is surprising that Harrison was able to get away with this rather cynical maneuver, even more...