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...welcome this turn of events." -David Bar-Illan, an aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, on Khatami's 1997 election. (NYT, May 26th...
...Although the eviction orders became effective four days earlier, the army did not come Thursday to evacuate Gadid. Most of the settlement's residents did not wait for the IDF troops; they went to a hotel in Neveh Illan, a village near Jerusalem. The Bentolilas stayed home. Lynn continued to go to the Neve Dekalim medical clinic, where she works as the administrative manager. Many of Gush Katif's settlers, she explains, refuse to be treated by IDF's and police medical crews. They want to be taken care of only by their fellow settlers...
...Palestinians as a reward for shutting down the Islamists. That didn't happen, and now, as far as the Israelis are concerned, that's the whole purpose of her trip. "I think she realized that waiting for a sufficient crackdown was not going to suffice," says David Bar-Illan, Netanyahu's director of communications and policy planning. "We want progress on this issue. If it can be effected by her presence, we want that. If it can't be, we sympathize with her efforts." As the week ended, Netanyahu made it plain that he is in no mood even...
...Israel has been angered by a display of Holocaust denial on Palestinian television. A cultural affairs show, aired last week, featured a claim by the host that that the Jews "exaggerate what the Nazis did to them," and profit from it by inflating the number of victims. David Bar-Illan, a top adviser to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, replied: "It is regrettable that an official outlet of the Palestinian Authority has stooped to Holocaust denial, coupled with an allusion to Jewish venality and greed." The chairman of the Palestinian Broadcasting Corp. claimed the comments were not "against Jews...
...renewed Palestinian violence if Israel proceeds with construction on the Jewish settlement. That comment in turn brought threats of exile from Israeli Justice Minister Tsahi Hanegbi. But Hussein's diplomacy succeeded in cooling the dispute. Hussein and Netanyahu jointly phoned Arafat on Sunday, and Netanyahu adviser David Bar-Illan said the Prime Minister and Arafat could meet this week. Sunday ended on a hopeful note in Palestinian-Israeli relations, with a temporary settlement that will allow construction to continue on the Palestinian-controlled Gaza Airport. Hussein and Netanyahu both suggested that all parties were determined not to allow disagreement over...