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...months ago, Israel's former army chief, AMNON LIPKIN-SHAHAK, was putting himself forward as a future Prime Minister. Though his candidacy quickly flopped, the retired general may be up for a lesser but still desirable job: ambassador...
...months ago, Israel's former army chief, Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, was putting himself forward as a future prime minister. Though his candidacy quickly flopped, the retired general may be up for a lesser but still desirable job: ambassador to the U.S. The Center Party that Lipkin-Shahak represents in the newly elected parliament is almost certain to be a governing partner with the party of prime minister-elect Ehud Barak, who preceded Lipkin-Shahak as military chief of staff. And the two generals were once close, though their relationship tensed over Lipkin-Shahak's initial decision to run against Barak...
...Lipkin-Shahak's would-be host seems to be in his corner. "From Washington, he looks good," says a State Department official. As military chief he gained considerable experience working with the Americans. The U.S. likes the idea of resuming land-for-peace negotiations between Israel and Syria at the ambassadorial level in Washington. "Lipkin-Shahak knows the issues, has the credibility and knows how to keep a secret," says the State Department source. Plus, if talks between the two nations take place in Washington, the U.S. remains fully in the picture and positioned to claim a foreign policy coup...
General Amnon Lipkin-Shahak is no Colin Powell. The former chief of the Israeli army who formally declared his candidacy for Prime Minister Wednesday may look like a new broom to those tired of the traditional Likud-Labor divide, but that could be wishful thinking. ?Politically Shahak would be on the left flank of the Labor Party,? says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. ?Israel?s generals tend to be more left-wing than its politicians. That could be because they know the horror of war, but it could also reflect the dominance of the kibbutz movement in the upper...
JERUSALEM: Israel?s version of Colin Powell is out of the army and in the race for prime minister. Former Israeli army chief of staff Amnon Lipkin-Shahak is popular with the public and wants to run as a centrist solution. And just like Powell, he?s a little gun-shy about political specifics. ?We must make peace among ourselves before we make peace with our neighbors,? was all Shahak would say after formally resigning his commission Thursday. After a 36-year military career during which he was forbidden to speak publicly on politics, it sounds as if Shahak...