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JERUSALEM: This time, Israel may not simply sit back and watch. As the prospect of an American attack on Iraq appears more and more likely, Israelis are preparing for the worst. "The feeling in Israeli intelligence is that [Saddam] can certainly do it," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "He has biological weapons and if he wants to he can pull...
Enough with the pop-culture thing! The media have outdone themselves with overkill of the Seinfeld-decision-to-quit "news" story. What is happening to journalistic standards? THOMAS BEYER Holland, Mich...
JERUSALEM: Benjamin Netanyahu cheated defeat again Monday and passed his budget despite the resignation on Sunday of his Foreign Minister David Levy. But the loss of Levy has hobbled Netanyahu, says TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Lisa Beyer, and the Prime Minister will likely face new elections within six months...
...Levy?s resignation was prompted both by a budget that he believed failed Israel?s poor and by the stagnation in Israeli peace efforts ? the foreign minister had made no effort to conceal his frustration at Netanyahu?s disregard for Israel?s commitments in the peace process. Beyer says a bitter personal rivalry between the two men also prompted Levy to choose a critical moment to pull the plug on Netanyahu?s government...
...Knesset, Netanyahu retains only the slimmest of majorities; a single defection would bring down his government, says Beyer. "And many members of his own party have openly conspired against him," she says. "Netanyahu has a knack for surviving. But this is his deepest crisis...