Word: dovishly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...taken six years of using force around the globe for Clinton to overcome his instinct not to use force at all. The dovish part of the President, his make-love-not-war part, is so deeply ingrained that his advisers no longer bother to deny it. He really believes that we all could get along fine if only he were around to lead us in a big conflict-resolution workshop. He normally keeps that stuff under wraps, but it was on display last Tuesday in a mostly ad-libbed speech at a conference of government unions. "I want...
...Lisa Beyer. ?Israel?s generals tend to be more left-wing than its politicians. That could be because they know the horror of war, but it could also reflect the dominance of the kibbutz movement in the upper echelons of the Israeli military.? Despite his popularity, the general?s dovish positions on a Palestinian state and on swopping land for peace with Syria aren?t likely to eat into Netanyahu?s support base...
...hard-line peace policies to the electorate if he could not muster support for them from the Knesset next Monday. Netanyahu's right wing is in shambles over how much hard line and how much peace there should be in those policies. "We're going to elections," predicted confidently dovish opposition Labor party leader Ehud Barak...
...Jews. Much earlier than others, Ben-Gurion recognized the depth and rationale of Arab objection to Zionism: he was aware of the tragic nature of a clash between two genuine claims to the same land. His position on this can be described neither as hawkish nor dovish: he saw the creation of an independent homeland for the homeless Jewish people as, first and foremost, a crucial provision for the survival of persecuted Jews...
...would prevent an agreement from taking effect. But for now, at least, "The threats have to be viewed with enormous skepticism," says TIME's Lisa Beyer. If a negotiated agreement is rejected, "Netanyahu would have to look toward rearranging the government" with a new coalition that could include the dovish Labor Party. "The hardliners would be essentially putting themselves out of business," she said, "and I don't think they're too anxious to do that." However, Beyer notes, "This does reflect that Netanyahu has a serious problem: that his government may be too right-wing to make the concessions...