Word: binyamin
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...government of Robert Mugabe that the independent media are conducting an anti-government campaign. MIDDLE EAST No Withdrawal Israel canceled talks with Palestinians aimed at implementing a plan for an Israeli withdrawal from Palestinian-controlled areas of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The meeting between Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer and Palestinian Interior Minister Abdel Razak Yahya was abandoned after violence hit the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Defense Ministry said. Hours before the ministers were to meet, Israel sent its forces to foil what it claimed was an attempt to bring arms into Gaza by sea. Four Palestinian...
Aides to Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer say he would prefer to build the fence right along the Green Line. But practical problems have pushed Israeli planners to set the obstacle inside the West Bank at several points. The entire barrier network--which includes a ditch, several roadways, concertina wire and surveillance cameras, as well as a 10-ft.-tall electric fence--will be 130 ft. wide. That means there wouldn't be enough room to lay the network along the Green Line where it divides three Arab towns. As a result, the people of Barta'a, Baka is-Sharqiyeh...
...Middle East peace be brokered without Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat? For the short term, at least, Israel is trying. Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer tells TIME that his country is bypassing Arafat as part of a strategy to strike direct cease-fire deals with local Palestinian power brokers. Last month in the divided city of Hebron, West Bank security chief Jibril Rajoub agreed to keep order in the Abu Sneineh neighborhood in return for Israel's pulling out troops and tanks. Last week--just days before Israelis killed a leading Hamas military leader suspected of terrorism--Ben-Eliezer oversaw...
...Aviv Israel's deeply divided Labor Party agreed to join Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon's governing coalition. It will hold eight of 30 cabinet posts. The party chose its elder statesman, Shimon Peres, as Foreign Minister and Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, a former general who headed the Israeli military government in the West Bank and Gaza in the 1980s, as Defense Minister. Salah Tarif was named a Minister Without Portfolio; he is the first Arab ever appointed to an Israeli cabinet...
...settlement of Neveh Dekalim is a harrowing 10-min. drive from Kfar Darom. As darkness comes, so does the time of greatest risk, when gunmen can move about with near impunity. Inside this largest of the 15 Gaza settlements, Noam and Leora Koenigsberg's three-year-old son Binyamin knows what darkness means. "Boom, boom," he says...