Word: hawkishness
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...should do the talking for the U.S.? This could be a problem area. Obama's planned point man on Iran is Dennis Ross, who served as Middle East envoy to both George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Ross takes a hawkish view of dealing with Iran, emphasizing the coercive diplomacy of sanctions. Ross himself was not available for interviews, but his position on Iran is well known. He has long argued for ramping up economic pressure on Tehran, telling TIME in 2007 that "if Iran thinks it is actually going to be cut off economically, which has not been...
...view their movement's only hope of re-establishing a leading role in Palestinian politics as being to join a unity government with Hamas - and begin to directly challenge the Israeli occupation in the West Bank. The fact that such a sentiment coincides with Israel's electing a more hawkish government suggests that the Middle East could be in for a long, hot summer...
Israel's election on Tuesday ended in a near draw, with the two front runners - centrist Kadima Party leader Tzipi Livni and hawkish Likud chief Benjamin Netanyahu - each claiming victory. With nearly all votes counted, Livni's party won 28 Knesset seats, and Netanyahu's 27 seats, both falling well short of a majority in the 120-seat Knesset...
...exit polls may have put centrist Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni ahead of the hawkish former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by a narrow margin (29 seats to 28), but Netanyahu may have good reason to count himself the victor. That's because Tuesday's vote confirmed a sharp swing to the right by Israel's electorate, with exit polls giving a combined right-wing bloc led by Netanyahu gaining 64 of the 120 seats in the Knesset, compared with only 56 for center-left bloc led by Livni. Late last year, Livni failed to form a majority coalition when she took...
...center, but to the far-right nationalist Yisrael Beitenu party of Avigdor Lieberman, whose third-place finish with 16 seats, according to exit polls, made it the story of the election. The surge in support for his hostile views to Israeli Arabs and for even more hawkish policies towards the Palestinians has made Lieberman the kingmaker, and conventional wisdom suggests that he's more likely to make common cause with the hawkish Netanyahu than with Livni. But nothing is ever certain in an Israeli political system rendered inherently unstable by its proportional-representation formula that has made it almost impossible...