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...despite his extremist political views, Ze’evi was not a terrorist. In a democratic parliamentary system like Israel’s, no individual, not even a cabinet minister, can act single-handedly. Although there exist right-wing parties in Israel that are quite skeptical of the Palestinian Authority as a potential partner in peace, there are also left-wingers who advocate the immediate creation of a Palestinian state. The debates between these two sides have been fierce, but they have been conducted within an organized, democratic body...
...make the difficult distinction between the violence of terrorism and the violence of retaliation, we must be willing to apply these terms to Israeli and Palestinian violence as well. Just as it would be horrific to kill a member of the U.S. cabinet over anger about American foreign policy in the Middle East, it is unacceptable and shocking to kill Ze’evi over Israeli actions in the occupied territories...
...Yasser Arafat has begun arresting members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which was responsible for the assassination earlier this week of Israeli cabinet minister Rehavam Zeevi. Will this provoke a showdown between Arafat and the PFLP and other radical elements in the West Bank and Gaza...
...also pressure from inside Likud, from people like Uzi Landau, saying they would have to consider their options if Sharon began talking to Arafat, so he was under a lot of pressure. Until today, which has changed everything again. This time it was Peres under pressure when the cabinet met today, and Lieberman was persuaded to withdraw his resignation and remain in the government...
...Perhaps Sharon would like for it to have changed everything. But what hasn't changed, as Peres continued to say in cabinet today even though he got lambasted for it, is that there is no solution that has been overlooked so far that Sharon can now turn to. There is no way out that isn't difficult, and if he turns away from the path either that Peres has been trying to take him down, or the rather rocky path down which he's been taking the country, he's not going to be able to "bring peace...