Word: hawkishness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...destroy what he deemed the “axis of evil.” In making such a sweeping goal, and with his successes in Afghanistan, Bush’s favorability ratings have skyrocketed. With a re-election campaign fast approaching, one can only wonder if his hawkish behavior is motivated by politics or practicality...
Even the most hawkish Israeli Cabinet member would say that for the immediate future at least, the answer is no. But the siege of Arafat's headquarters was only the first part of the Israeli army's plan. Military sources tell TIME that the army intends to keep troops in Ramallah searching for wanted gunmen and terrorists for another month. If the deployment there is successful--lots of arrests of Palestinian suspects with minimal Israeli casualties--the army will repeat the exercise in other Palestinian-held cities beginning with Nablus, the sources say. By week's end Israeli tanks...
...government that relies on both an ultra-right and a center-left faction. Thus he cannot lean too far in either direction without risking that one of the coalition members will quit, bringing his government down. If that were to happen, new elections would follow. With Israelis in a hawkish mood, Sharon's right-wing Likud Party would almost surely make significant electoral gains. But Sharon might not be his party's candidate for Prime Minister. Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who told TIME last week that he intends to challenge Sharon at the next opportunity, has considerably more support...
...theme of all of the long-term peace plans currently in circulation. And Sharon, at least for now, lacks an alternative. He remains in deep political trouble at home for his failure to deal with an Israeli security crisis that has substantially deepened on his watch. And even many hawkish Israelis are concerned that the negotiating terrain of long-term solutions not be left entirely to Palestinian allies and Israeli doves...
...economic situation has sent the prime minister's approval ratings plummeting to 48 percent from a high of around 70 percent. From the right, he's facing calls to reoccupy all of the West Bank and Gaza, with former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu looking to ride a wave of hawkish anger back into the top job. But from the left, he's facing increasingly assertive calls for Israel to end the occupation altogether. That call was echoed from the center this week when a group comprising 1,000 top echelon reserve officers began campaigning for a withdrawal from...