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According to Jonathan D. Casper, the chair of Northwestern's Political Science department, Mansbridge was a prominent and active member of the Northwestern community who was greatly respected by students and faculty alike...
...opposition. A leading contender is Ehud Barak, 54, the articulate, highly educated outgoing Foreign Minister and former military Chief of Staff. As Israel's most decorated soldier, he is the logical claimant to Rabin's tough-guy peacemaker mantle; ironically his elegant eulogy for Netanyahu's fallen-hero brother Jonathan is reprinted in Hebrew textbooks. Another possible standard bearer is Haim Ramon, 46, the outgoing Minister of Interior who proved his vote-winning talents in 1994 when he broke party ranks and defeated the official Labor candidate for head of the Histadrut, the federation of trade unions. But this savvy...
...family. Last week his mother lent a Time photographer six pictures of him as a youngster, then called urgently at 1 a.m. to say he insisted on vetting them. Over the phone Netanyahu forbade the use of a photo that showed him with his father and his elder brother Jonathan...
...school in a Philadelphia suburb but after graduating, returned to Israel to serve with distinction for five years in Sayeret Matkal, an elite special-forces unit. At 22, he was among the commandos who, in 1972, successfully stormed a hijacked jet on the tarmac at the Tel Aviv airport. Jonathan served in the same unit, and was killed in 1976 while leading the team that rescued the passengers of a hijacked plane at the Entebbe airport in Uganda. Jonathan's death badly traumatized the Netanyahus. They have made a kind of cult of this son, producing three books about...
Netanyahu perceives himself as a last-minute rescuer, sent to save a nation hijacked by a false peace process--much like his brother Jonathan, who died leading Israeli commandos sent to rescue Israelis hijacked at Entebbe Airport in 1976. But as an old commando, Netanyahu knows that victory depends on high morale and unified ranks. If he tries to fully impose the right-wing agenda, he will go to battle with only half the country behind him and the other half actively opposed...