Word: mitzna
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...Arafat's Palestinian Authority. At Labor Party headquarters in Tel Aviv's low-rent Ha-Tikva quarter, the moments after the election results came through were dismal. Outside the hall, the wind carried the discordant sounds of a few dozen disappointed activists gamely singing along with Labor leader Amram Mitzna, as he crooned old Zionist tunes from the 1950s. A clutch of young Labor supporters huddled on a wall, smoking cigarettes. Yoav Zinger, an 18-year-old, lamented that he was soon due to begin his compulsory military service. "That's why I'm depressed," he said. "So many people...
ISRAEL Coalition Busters The opposition Labor Party ruled out rejoining a government led by Likud's Ariel Sharon after the Jan. 28 elections. Labor leader Amram Mitzna said he could not serve under a Prime Minister so tainted by corruption, a reference to vote buying and illegal funding scandals. If he is unable to build a majority coalition with Labor, Sharon will be forced to ally with hawkish nationalist and religious parties that adamantly oppose a Palestinian state...
...prejudice. The humiliation of the Palestinians is a case in point. What do you think of the Israeli leadership? Sharon is a terrible bully. There's no glory in subduing the Palestinian people and in that respect Washington is not exactly even-handed. I hope that Labor leader Amram Mitzna will be elected. What is the role of humanitarian organizations in international affairs? I put more faith in nongovernmental organizations than in state governments, rogue or otherwise. The Red Cross, Amnesty, Oxfam, Human Rights Watch - no national politician would ever get a mandate to create such an institution, because they...
...ordinary Israelis, and it's erased almost entirely any lingering support for the concessions offered to the Palestinians in the 1993 Oslo peace accord. As a result, in the run-up to the Jan. 28 national election, in which Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is likely to trounce challenger Amram Mitzna, Lahav is in demand at clubs all over the country, and singalong television shows teach youngsters old campfire numbers from the 1948 Independence War. The intifadeh "has pushed Israeli society back in history to its Zionist ideological phase," says Benny Morris, a leading post-Zionist historian. "People are moving backward...
...Though he has no chance of becoming Prime Minister, Mitzna remains quixotically determined to limit Labor's expected losses, so he can hold onto the party leadership after the election. New to the job and already stalked by party rivals, the former mayor of Haifa released his first campaign spots last week - and they didn't even mention his plan to restart negotiations with the Palestinians and evacuate Israeli settlements in Gaza. Instead, he went with the New Zionist flow and showed photos from his days as an army general, including a video clip in which assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak...