Word: hawkishness
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...Netanyahu's showdown with Washington may happen soon. Leader of the hawkish Likud Party, Netanyahu will meet with U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell in Jerusalem on April 16. That meeting will be a dress rehearsal for the Prime Minister's trip to Washington in May for talks with President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who are pushing for the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza as a key to a wider peace in the region. (See pictures of heartbreak in the Middle East...
...Tuesday night, Ehud Barak pushed his party into joining a right-wing coalition government led by Likud's Benjamin Netanyahu. With Labor on board, Netanyahu's coalition, stitched together with an array of ultra-Orthodox and nationalist parties, now has a majority in the 120-seat Knesset. The hawkish Likud leader is likely to be sworn in as Prime Minister next week, ushering out his disgraced predecessor, Ehud Olmert, who faces possible corruption charges...
...local governments will get into trouble. That's already happening. *Housing starts will reach bottom. I feel pretty good but not absolutely confident about that. * The savings rate fails to rise above 3%. It has is already hit 5%, so it has moved above that * Obama becomes more hawkish. I definitely feel good about that...
...Clinton was never going to avoid running into domestic Israeli politics on her visit. Livni's centrist Kadima Party posted a narrow win in Feb. 10 parliamentary elections but has been unable to stitch together a governing coalition. Now the hawkish Netanyahu is trying his luck, turning to the right wing and orthodox religious parties and possibly a breakaway faction of the Labor Party. (See pictures of 60 years of Israel...
...Gaza in 2005 only to face rocket fire from Hamas and Hizballah. After the failure of major Israeli military operations - the 2006 war in Lebanon and this year's Gaza incursion - to reverse the rising power of these groups, the Israeli electorate has swung to the right, choosing more hawkish leaders in the recent election. Aides to Israel's Prime Minister-designate, Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu, are currently floating a proposal for a partial withdraw from the Golan in exchange for peace, a proposal that is likely to be met with derision in Damascus...