Word: hawkishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...form a Cabinet. He has already said he will respect the achievements in negotiations. I am convinced that no leader in Israel can simply stop the peace process; it is irreversible. So many people here were afraid [last week], because they don't remember that Begin was as hawkish as Netanyahu seems to be. It was after all Begin who signed the first peace agreement with Egypt--he was the one who gave up the entire Sinai. So let's not start coming out with statements of fear; there is no reason to panic...
ARIEL SHARON Phoenix-like, hawkish ex-general is likely to rise again, just behind Bibi's throne...
...circumstances like these, the White House would typically urge all sides to show restraint. Not this time. Peres has a reputation for softness on security, and he faces a nasty election fight with the hawkish Benjamin Netanyahu on May 29. The U.S. supports Peres, who has led the peace process, and it essentially gave him a green light to burnish an image of toughness...
...armed forces are obviously not up to the job. In any case, their commanders should have learned in Afghanistan that conventional armies do badly when pitted against highly motivated guerrillas. If Yeltsin chooses to fight, by election day in June he could be under political attack from both sides: hawkish rivals criticizing the unsuccessful conduct of the war and doves calling for negotiations...
Moving quickly to nip the budding talk of returning to Reagan's hawkish days, Defense Secretary William Perry today rejected calls for reviving a "Star Wars" missile defense system. Perry told reporters that there's no current threat justifying that kind of costly buildup. Should a reason for it materialize, Perry said, the Pentagon is prepared to meet the threat. Perry also disclosed that the Clinton Administration plans to move forward with an "aggressive" schedule for sea-based and ground-based anti-missile defense systems -- not a huge effort that could lead to deployment of a continental missile defense system...