Word: bibi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bibi Underwhelms The Palestinian Authority rejects a new proposal from the Israeli leader. Guess who'll pick up the pieces...
...disappointing meeting with Netanyahu at the White House this month. But the Israeli Prime Minister could hardly have felt much inclination to move after listening a day earlier to Gore's performance before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Saying the stewardship of peace rested with "my friend Bibi Netanyahu," Gore declared, "We will never permit anyone to drive a wedge between the United States and Israel." (This was a bit of pandering Gore could have dispensed with: a week later, Netanyahu is facing a possible indictment, and peacemaking is on hold...
Residents of Kabul were generally too cautious to express concern about the Taliban out loud, but they certainly had reason to wonder: at the first Taliban-attended Friday prayer meeting, soldiers forced passersby into mosques at gunpoint. At the Malali High School, Siad Bibi knew that her life had turned a terrible corner. She was a cleaner until the Taliban decreed that she could not leave her house, which is right next door, without her husband, who is old and ill. "Now I have no work. I can't go outside," she says. She adds that the situation is even...
Your cover story, "the right way to Peace?," blithely suppresses the security concerns that motivated many Israelis to vote for Netanyahu when it says, "At issue was not peace vs. security." Peres, unlike Yitzhak Rabin or "Bibi" Netanyahu, lacked the military credentials that are essential for a leader in a country where every citizen serves in the army and may be called upon at any moment to defend the state. To say the only issue was one of "hope vs. fear," without addressing the candidates' military backgrounds, was to miss a crucial dimension of the election. At its heart...
Israelis have ditched Peres gold for Bibi tinsel. Netanyahu's success in the scheme of things will be no less than miraculous, his failure a sure victory for political sanity. MAHMOOD FARIDOON Farsta, Sweden...