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...Israeli government late Tuesday strongly denied any involvement. "It was strange to see them actually issuing a denial on the basis of speculative reports," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "But it was clearly a good idea given what happened in Berlin." Turkey on Wednesday boasted that its commandos had netted Ocalan in an "undercover operation," loaded him blindfolded onto a private jet and flown him to an island prison off Turkey. The claim of a covert operation certainly bears up in light of the conflicting accounts, by Greece and Kenya, of Ocalan's capture. Greece says...
...Israelis debate whom to elect and where to take their country following the tenuous Wye peace accords, Arafat has made it a point to remain focused on his immediate goal. "His number one priority is to improve his relationship with Washington," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "His principal strategy is aimed at undermining the United States' traditional pro-Israeli stance." Arafat and other Palestinian leaders believe that if they can warm U.S. officials to the idea of Palestinian self-determination, and ultimately a Palestinian state, Israel will have no choice but to yield on the issue. Arafat...
...Shahak?s strong showing in opinion polls is based on Israelis projecting their own political attitudes onto a man bound to silence by military discipline, says Beyer. Israeli voting patterns reflect a fierce divide between Israelis of European origin and those who immigrated from Arab countries. ?Right now there?s little indication that Shahak will be able to bridge that divide,? says Beyer. After all, a military background is the rule rather than the exception among Israel?s leaders...
...army who formally declared his candidacy for Prime Minister Wednesday may look like a new broom to those tired of the traditional Likud-Labor divide, but that could be wishful thinking. ?Politically Shahak would be on the left flank of the Labor Party,? says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. ?Israel?s generals tend to be more left-wing than its politicians. That could be because they know the horror of war, but it could also reflect the dominance of the kibbutz movement in the upper echelons of the Israeli military.? Despite his popularity, the general?s dovish positions...
...Labor's Ehud Barak is currently ten points ahead of Bibi Netanyahu in the polls, and will try to keep his lead by talking tough on peace. But Palestinian violence could turn things around. "Terror attacks work in Bibi's favor," says Beyer. "If the Palestinians want him out, they'll have to do their utmost to prevent new violence." But with the peace process on ice for the next five months, that may be a tall order...