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...past two years, the Egyptian press has presented many cartoons depicting Israeli soldiers as grotesque-looking, demonic creatures wearing swastikas on their helmets or armbands. Israeli Prime Ministers Ehud Barak and Ariel Sharon have been portrayed sporting Hitler-style mustaches, giving the Fuhrer’s infamous one-armed salute and, without fail, proudly displaying a swastika...
...Sharon had been selected as party leader simply as a caretaker following Netanyahu's 1999 drubbing at the hands of Ehud Barak. Ironically, it was right-wing defections from Netanyahu's own government that had forced that election. Eighteen months later, a crafty parliamentary trick by Barak allowed Sharon rather than the preferred Netanyahu to be the party's candidate in a new election - Netanyahu was precluded from standing under the rules governing that particular election because he was not a member of the Knesset at the time. (Barak believed his own chances were better against Sharon than against Netanyahu...
...With branches in the U.S., Canada and Europe, it is the foremost Jewish peace organization. It organized massive protests throughout the 1980s and 1990s that influenced Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000. Even Israel’s Labor party under former prime ministers Yitzhak Rabin and Ehud Barak eventually adopted many of its views. In response to the current conflict, Peace Now advocates a withdrawal from the occupied territories, a two-state solution and an end to violence...
...Israeli initiative to build a fence in the West Bank to protect its citizens from terrorist attacks is the best option. On April 14, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak wrote an op-ed in the New York Times advocating that a fence be built to include 80 percent of the Israeli population living in the West Bank and that a security buffer zone be established in the Jordan Valley. The Israeli cabinet has already given instructions for construction on a fence to start. Although such a barrier is anathema to some Israelis because it excludes many Jewish communities which...
...current wave of terrorism can hardly be blamed on Israel itself. From airline hijackings in the 1960s to the current intifada, the Palestinians have targeted civilians deliberately and heinously. In the summer of 2000, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak presented the Palestinians with their third opportunity for a Palestinian state. Arafat rejected this offer, without a counter-offer, without the promise of further negotiations. The response to an outstretched hand was the lynching of Israeli soldiers and the bombing of more civilians...