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Around the time he settled in Nokdim, Lieberman met Netanyahu, then a rising Likud star. He ran Netanyahu's first, successful campaign for Prime Minister, in 1996, and became his chief of staff. "Netanyahu trusted him," says Tzahi Hanegbi, who served as the Justice Minister at the time. "He was quiet, discreet and loyal." In 1999, Lieberman split from Netanyahu and Likud, forming Yisrael Beitenu, an unapologetically nationalist party that drew its support from Israel's Russian-immigrant community. The party's most explosive position is the call for all citizens to pledge allegiance to the Jewish state...
...loyalty pledge will become law. Lieberman knows this. But by pressing the issue, he taps a growing impatience among Israelis with the country's Arab citizens, some of whom openly sided with Hamas during Israel's offensive against the militant group last winter. "His views have a constituency," says Hanegbi. "People want someone who will represent their fears and frustrations." Lieberman insists he supports an independent Palestinian state and says Israel is "ready to start negotiations without preconditions." But in Lieberman's view, peace doesn't mean cohabitation. "His governing idea is, Jews on one side, Arabs on the other...
Israeli officials insist they will not free Barghouti--even if he stays in the race and wins the presidency. Israeli Police Minister Tzahi Hanegbi said last week that Barghouti would remain in jail "for 100 years." But agents in the Shin Bet, Israel's domestic security service, tell TIME they believe there's a chance that if Barghouti is elected the next Palestinian President, international pressure will force Israeli political leaders to go against the security service's advice and release him. --By Matt Rees. With reporting by Jamil Hamad, Aharon Klein and Massimo Calabresi
...Where there is a fence, there is no terror. Where there is no fence, there is terror." TZACHI HANEGBI, Israeli Public Security Minister, on the need to complete a controversial security barrier in the West Bank following two Palestinian suicide bombings in unfenced southern Israel...
...Everyone is in our sights. There is no immunity to anyone. And that means anyone to the last person." TZACHI HANEGBI, Israeli Public Security Minister, on a new policy of targeting top Palestinian militants after Hamas leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin was killed in an Israeli rocket attack...