Word: brinkmanship
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...that by threatening unilateral withdrawal, but that could get Barak into trouble if Hezbollah starts firing rockets directly into Israel." Which may be why Israel has been reluctant to strike too hard in Lebanon for fear of hampering a resumption of talks with Syria. But while the high-stakes brinkmanship between Israel and Syria continues, Hezbollah is more than happy to accrue the spoils...
...always been an easy proposition, peace between Israel and Syria would have happened decades ago. So while Monday's announcement indefinitely postponing the resumption of negotiations in Washington this week may be a setback, it wasn't entirely unexpected. "Some brinkmanship and posturing at this early stage was inevitable," says TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott MacLeod. "These two countries have been at each other's throats for a half century, and, if anything, they'd have had a hard time selling their own people a quick deal that involves making concessions. They need to make whatever deal they reach...
...problem with brinkmanship is you have to know where the brink is. Although it wants to keep its confrontation with Chechnya limited to air strikes, Moscow is in danger of lurching right back into the quagmire of three years ago. Russia rolled tanks up to the border Tuesday and bombed the rebel republic for the sixth consecutive day, as tens of thousands of refugees poured out of Chechnya. The Kremlin vowed to stamp out the Islamic rebels it holds responsible for a wave of terrorist bomb attacks on apartment buildings throughout Russia, and has accused the Chechen government of aiding...
When the Iraqi master of brinkmanship let it be known that he would "unconditionally" allow the U.N. inspectors to return to their work of prying into suspected stockpiles of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons, he threw into confusion the best-laid American plans for military action against him. On the surface, the letter dispatched to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan appeared to fulfill U.S. demands that Iraq let unfettered inspections resume immediately. But it came with a two-page annex listing nine items Iraq wanted in return, which Saddam dubbed "positions" but the U.S. called unacceptable "conditions." The approval...
...frantic negotiation, Netanyahu on Friday appeared to have backed off from his refusal to sign a peace deal unless he could take Pollard home with him. Israel "de-linked" the issues, giving Clinton the space to release Pollard at a later point. The problem, says Thompson, is that Israeli brinkmanship on the issue has created a situation where even a future release of Pollard may carry a domestic political cost...