Word: israel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chest by a 5 foot, 10 inch black male at 2440 Mass. Ave. Witnesses stated that there had been an argument between the victim and the suspect, at which point the suspect removed a firearm from his coat and fired four shots. The victim was taken to Beth Israel Hospital by ambulance, and later said he would "take care of business" with the suspect himself and would not give CPD a further description or any information...
...part centrist candidate commanding only a few percentage points in the polls may have chosen Israel's next prime minister. Yitzhak Mordechai, a former defense minister who entered the campaign for Monday's election with the sole aim of unseating Netanyahu, finally withdrew Sunday, recognizing that Netanyahu would be the main beneficiary if he stayed in the race. "Barak's best chance of winning was if Mordechai withdrew and allowed him a clear shot at winning it in the first round," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "If no candidate had won a clear majority in a three...
...only for Barak," says Beyer. "But Netanyahu's core constituencies, such as ultra-orthodox Jews, are highly motivated. And a runoff would have also given Bibi two more weeks to come up with some gimmick to turn the tide." Barak may have a clear shot, but with Israel's ethnic and political divisions as fierce as ever, nobody's predicting a landslide. As in '96, it may be too close to call before the last ballot is counted...
...contempt for its appeasers, the second half of the century would have become a Nazi-dominated nightmare. That the world witnessed instead the triumph of democracy, the defeat of totalitarianism (including the downfall of Stalin's own empire) and the emergence of new nations--not least the rebirth of Israel--must be attributed to Churchill's indomitable leadership and prophetic vision. --Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel...
...this was impossible, he said, because of a 1947 United Nations accord giving 77 percent of land owned by Palestinians to Israel...