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...basis of the Oslo process, requires Israeli withdrawal from territories occupied in 1967, and negotiations with the Palestinians over a two-state solution have until now been based on a return to 1967 borders, or modifying them by mutual consent. The outline agreement achieved in the final days of Ehud Barak's administration in talks with Palestinian representatives at Taba remains the furthest the two sides have come to achieving an agreement over borders. It recognized the 1967 lines as the basis for talks, suggesting that Israel could incorporate the large settlement blocs around Jerusalem if it compensated the Palestinians...
...Israel, the victory was a salve for not only its painful history but also a politically fraught incident in the Games' first week. Iranian champion judoist Arash Miresmaeili, a medal favorite in the under 66-kg class, had been drawn to fight Israeli Ehud Vaks, but failed to make weight. Questions swirled about how a veteran like Miresmaeili could let this happen. Then he told a newspaper back home that it was no accident: "I refused to fight my Israeli opponent to sympathize with the suffering of the Palestinian people...
...take a "mulligan," or do-over, for the Rich pardon, he defends it here: "I may have made a mistake, at least in the way I allowed the case to come to my attention"--that is, through the special pleadings of Rich's wife and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak--"but I made the decision based on the merits...
...there had been no significant retaliation from Hamas after the assassinations of its leaders Sheik Ahmed Yassin and Dr. Abdel Aziz Rantisi. And some Israelis were beginning to wonder aloud if maybe, perhaps, there had been a "positive change" in Israel's war on terrorism, as Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert cautiously told me. "It has been very difficult for Hamas to respond because the security measures we take are very effective," he explained...
...work on Democratic presidential campaigns, Greenberg worked for scores of other domestic campaigns and in the Clinton White House. He has served as a polling guru and political adviser to world leaders such as British Prime Minister Tony Blair, former South African President Nelson Mandela, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder...