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...many ways, Rudy and Hillary will be battling each other on the same centrist policy terrain. It will heighten the chance that the campaign will turn on personal politics--who gets uglier, and more rattled, in the charge and countercharge of a New York election. Giuliani won't hesitate to go negative. In 1997 he accused his overmatched opponent, Ruth Messinger, of giving a party in the 1970s for an Attica prison inmate; suggested she supported X-rated video stores; and all but blamed her for the Brooklyn Dodgers' 1957 move to Los Angeles. But Giuliani could pay a price...
Democrats have displayed remarkable unity lately, especially in regard to the impeachment proceeding, but there are still ideological divisions within the party--over welfare, over health care and over the future of Social Security--that deserve to be addressed. Gore is clearly in the centrist camp associated with the Democratic Leadership Council and of course most prominently exemplified by his boss in the White House. Now is the time for the party to consider a possible return to its more liberal roots. Gore is an able and principled man, but letting him coast to the nomination would be a disservice...
Israel will spend the next five months fighting about peace, but the fault lines in the Jewish state's election are more about ethnic loyalty than policy. Despite a flurry of "centrist" bids, the May 17 election announced late Monday remains a contest between the traditional foes, Likud and Labor. "People choose between those parties on the basis of cultural affiliation rather than peace plans," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "If they're prosperous middle class Ashkenazis (Jews of European origin) they tend to vote Labor; and if they're from the ranks of the aggrieved, disadvantaged Jews...
JERUSALEM: Israel?s version of Colin Powell is out of the army and in the race for prime minister. Former Israeli army chief of staff Amnon Lipkin-Shahak is popular with the public and wants to run as a centrist solution. And just like Powell, he?s a little gun-shy about political specifics. ?We must make peace among ourselves before we make peace with our neighbors,? was all Shahak would say after formally resigning his commission Thursday. After a 36-year military career during which he was forbidden to speak publicly on politics, it sounds as if Shahak...
...peace is not what Shahak is bringing to Israeli politics. The left-center Labor party is worried that the Rabin prot?g? will split the ?peace camp? by siphoning off centrist Labor members. That could force Shahak, Benjamin Netanyahu or Labor leader Ehud Barak to stake out extreme positions in order to attract enough votes to form a majority -- just the sort of frenzied coalition-building that left Netanyahu beholden to hard-liners against the peace process. But nobody?s panicking yet. ?Shahak has run very well in the polls, but it's entirely as an unknown entity,? reminds TIME Jerusalem...