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...many Israelis, this vote wasn?t just about the big picture - dealing with a hostile Palestinian leadership in the West Bank and Gaza. It was also about more personal issues: as Israel drifts away from its socialist origins of collective farms and all-embracing welfare towards bustling capitalism, it has ignored the poorer folks left behind. That, say analysts, explains the voters? tilt to parties such as Labor, led by Moroccan-born Amir Peretz, which focused its campaign on social inequalities, and the parties such as Shas and Beiteinu that championed the neglected but sizeable Sephardic and Russian communities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel's Election: Voting the Social Agenda | 3/29/2006 | See Source »

...Abbas's action underscores the fact that Fatah lacks a clear program, and is breaking up into fiefdoms run by local warlords: In Gaza, on Monday, Fatah-aligned gunmen who attacked a Palestinian police station and electricity utility were repelled by mostly Fatah-aligned Palestinian policemen. Hamas, meanwhile, has picked a cabinet designed to show a responsible face to the world: Its nominee for finance minister, economist Omar Abdel Razzak, has said that financial cooperation between Israel and the Palestinians is in the best interests of both sides, and should continue. He believes it will, since he also thinks Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hamas Leaves Abbas in a Bind | 3/20/2006 | See Source »

...While Razzak appears to be a well-qualified technocrat, there are questions over whether Interior Minister nominee and longtime Hamas activist Sayed Siam will have the power and experience to handle the increasingly difficult internal security challenge symbolized by Monday's Gaza firefights. Still, Hamas is taking a pragmatic approach, blessing current talks about opening border crossings to ease the stranglehold on Gaza's food supplies and also on combating a regional outbreak of bird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hamas Leaves Abbas in a Bind | 3/20/2006 | See Source »

...Shahar said the historical elements of his framework relate to the problems Palestinian refugees have faced in Gaza and Hebron [SEE CORRECTION APPENDED...

Author: By Marie C. Kodama, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Psych Guru Examines Israel | 3/16/2006 | See Source »

massacre of Jews by Palestinian Arab terrorists in Gaza and Hebron"; he did not say that the historical elements of his framework related to the problems faced by Palestinian refugees in Gaza and Hebron...

Author: By Marie C. Kodama, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Psych Guru Examines Israel | 3/16/2006 | See Source »

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