Word: israel
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...campaign on a note as old as democracy itself: His opponents are out of touch with the will of the people. "Either you replace the people or you replace the parliament," Netanyahu said in a televised speech to the Knesset Monday night. "And I agree to replace the parliament." Israel's prime minister says the people support his policies (which are essentially an abandonment of the October Wye Plantation agreement) and that it's the Labor party, which split with Netanyahu's governing coalition after he refused to comply with a scheduled withdrawal of troops from the West Bank, that...
...right, says TIME reporter Jamil Hammad: "The Palestinians believe that it's Netanyahu who abandoned the Wye and Oslo agreements. In fact, it's the people of Israel who are pushing this. The hopes of the Palestinians that a Labor-led government would make things better have been dashed by the rise of the right." Netanyahu says that he is still committed to the Wye agreement, but pressures from his right mean he keeps adding new conditions to its implementation -- pressures that will only intensify as he looks for votes. The political realities of the next four months leading...
...after Palestinians agreed to stop calling for the destruction of Israel, Bill Clinton had the chutzpah to want more -- from the Israeli side. Benjamin Netanyahu didn't help him -- from Israel's perspective, Clinton's trip represented a terrific loss. And so, in a fruitless two-hour meeting with Clinton and Yasser Arafat Tuesday morning, Netanyahu reiterated that there would be no more troop withdrawals unless the Palestinians made further concessions. Arafat left the meeting early and without comment -- though he was doubtless smiling inside...
...Clinton's arrival at the Gaza airport is nothing less than the creation of a Palestinian state, which is huge," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. That explains Netanyahu's recalcitrance, and his contention that Israel's soldiers are going nowhere until Arafat also abandons plans to declare a Palestinian state in May. "In the zero-sum game that the peace process has become," Beyer says, "for Israel this visit has to be seen as a defeat." For Arafat, though, even a failed round of peace talks has rarely seemed so sweet...
...Lord died there at the command of the Lord. He [God] buried him in the valley in the land of Moab, near Beth-peor; and no one knows his burial place to this day." There follows this spare but eloquent elegy. "Never again did there arise in Israel a prophet like Moses--whom the Lord singled out, face to face...