Word: dovishness
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...Wednesday evening with a joke that has serious implications for peace. The Prime Minister had just held a meeting with Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, who shared a Nobel Peace Prize with Arafat for the Oslo peace accords. Sharon, whose reputation is as hawkish as Peres' is dovish, told his cabinet that Peres had advocated a stronger response: "Peres is more aggressive than I am." Peres responded, "Yes, he had to restrain me this time." It was another sign that there is a deep anger among supporters of the peace process who feel Arafat betrayed them...
...Still, Kim's visit provided further evidence of the foreign policy fault lines within the new administration, with the hawks fighting back against what they perceive as a dovish streak in the secretary of state, while a novice President quickly learns that the plain-speakin' style of the campaign trail can be disastrous in international affairs...
...leaders has been the military - the preeminent institution of national unity and security. This is the backdrop to Wednesday's inauguration of Ariel Sharon's national unity government, comprising not only his own Likud party and a number of smaller right-wing and center-right groups, but also the dovish Labor party he beat in last month's election, and also the country's third-largest party, the ultra-Orthodox Shas...
...Arafat is looking to regional peace-seeker Mubarak to help him find a negotiating posture that passes for dovish at the negotiating table and hawkish back at home, while Barak and Clinton wait...
...commentary "The Barak Paradox," Charles Krauthammer says the outbreak of violence in the Middle East is proof that the "dovish" approach advocated by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak's government is painfully misguided [ESSAY, Oct. 23]. But does Krauthammer truly believe that seven years of Israeli peace initiatives and negotiations with, and concessions to, the Palestinians should be enough time and effort to turn the tide on centuries-old religious and ethnic enmity? And even if he believes that, how can he suggest that Barak give up doing what is right in exchange for the military imposition of a peace...