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...kosher, but pork is a staple of democracy - and as the only democracy in the Mideast peace process, Israel is being reminded that it that can make life difficult. Prime Minister Ehud Barak suffered a setback in parliament Wednesday when a key coalition partner ditched his government and added the crucial votes that passed a bill requiring early elections. Although an early poll would almost certainly shut down the peace process for the year, the dispute was unrelated to any concessions Barak may be planning to make to the Palestinians or to Syria. The ultra-orthodox Shas party, the second...
...might well be the theme song for Madeleine Albright's Middle East visit. Because like Messrs. Jagger and Richards she's trying to get Israelis and Palestinians to forget about what they want and start focusing on what it is that they need. But with both Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak answering to increasingly reluctant constituencies and with both sides having postponed the most intractable aspects of their peace process for the very end, Ms. Albright may well get no satisfaction. "She?s trying to hurry both sides along by telling them they?ll have to live with something less...
...EHUD BARAK D'oh! Saigon-style evacuation of Lebanon embarrassing. Uh, got a plan if Hizballah starts shelling...
Last Friday afternoon, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak sat down with TIME's Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer for an exclusive interview...
...Palestinian negotiators resume talks aimed at completing a final, comprehensive peace agreement, hanging over them is a pledge made by Palestinian leader YASSER ARAFAT to declare a Palestinian state by year's end, with or without Israel's acquiescence. During his interview with TIME (see WORLD), Prime Minister EHUD BARAK revealed a position not unlike that of his hard-line predecessor BENJAMIN NETANYAHU. Barak says if Arafat unilaterally declares a fully sovereign state in all the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Israel would respond by unilaterally annexing Palestinian territories Israel wants to keep for itself, a move long avoided because...