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It was the last political maneuver Ehud Barak had to pull out of his hat. Behind in the polls, facing revolts in the parliament and within his own party, Israel's Prime Minister announced his resignation Saturday night, only 17 months into his term. Israelis will have to choose a...
The decision to attach such weight to the December 12 deadline was based on thoroughly specious legal reasoning - so specious that it has led some to declare the decision political in nature. The Supreme Court should never have opened itself up to such accusations; if the majority wanted to guarantee...
Requesting the arrest is a high-stakes maneuver for Putin, in light of Gusinsky's efforts to portray the legal proceedings against him as nothing more than a political witch hunt. The spectacle of Gusinsky being sent home in handcuffs by Spanish law enforcement officers will undermine his claims to...
Like a siamese twin, Jeb Bush may now have to lay down his political life so that his brother can survive. It wasn't supposed to come to this. Seeing peril in leading George W.'s postelection fight, Jeb recused himself, leaving the heavy lifting to his secretary of state...
Even before his latest maneuver, conventional wisdom among Israeli pundits has been that Barak can't win reelection unless he has a peace deal with Arafat around which to campaign, the calculation being that he might conceivably win an election that could be painted as a referendum choice between peace...