Word: dovishness
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...mounting pressure from the right to take a harder line with the Palestinians. Two far-right members of his cabinet resigned Tuesday, and the prime minister is no longer the favored candidate of his own party come election time. That may leave him overly reliant on the relatively more dovish Labor Party, to avoid having to call new elections. But the edge of the envelope in Israeli realpolitik is determined by Washington, and Sharon has little choice now but to walk back from his chokehold on Arafat and begin anew the cease-fire dance. Still, the respite may be temporary...
...Oslo peace process began eight years ago. Where was Abdullah during the prime ministerships of Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres? And, most crucially, where was Abdullah just 19 months ago, when the most dovish leader in Israel's history, Ehud Barak, offered an astonishingly generous peace at Camp David, and the Saudis, begged by President Clinton to weigh in with Arafat on the side of peace, did nothing of the sort...
...feeling heat from all sides. Since returning to the public eye after a bout with the flu, the Prime Minister has come under siege by Israelis fed up with the carnage he was elected to stop. Hard-liners want him to topple Arafat and reclaim Palestinian-held land; the dovish opposition is calling for a unilateral pullout from the occupied territories and a new round of peace talks. In a national address, Sharon tried to mollify both wings by acceding to neither; he instead announced the creation of "buffer zones" to separate the Palestinian territories from Israel. But he left...
...feeling heat from all sides. Since returning to the public eye after a bout with the flu, the Prime Minister has come under siege by Israelis fed up with the carnage he was elected to stop. Hard-liners want him to topple Arafat and reclaim Palestinian-held land; the dovish opposition is calling for a unilateral pullout from the occupied territories and a new round of peace talks. In a national address, Sharon tried to mollify both wings by acceding to neither; he instead announced the creation of "buffer zones" to separate the Palestinian territories from Israel. But he left...
...memories of the domestic political pressure that, over more than a decade, created overwhelming political pressure in Israel to withdraw from Lebanon. The very fact of the soldiers' action may be further evidence that the political pendulum in Israel that swung dramatically from the hawkish Benjamin Netanyahu to the dovish Ehud Barak in 1999, and then back to the hawkish Sharon a year later, has once again reached its apex...