Word: netanyahu
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...unstable coalition that brought Benjamin Netanyahu to power has crumbled after just 30 months. Monday the national government came apart amidst arguments about Netanyahu's handling of peace negotiations, and the Knesset took the first step toward early elections. It has to vote for new elections twice more before they can be called, but the move has such wide support it's almost a sure bet to pass...
...When they do come off, Netanyahu will face a strong challenge from the Labor party, currently led by Ehud Barak, who is a consistent critic of what Labor calls Netanyahu's abandonment of the peace agreements set in place by Yitzhak Rabin. But there also may be a challenge from popular Lt. General Amnon Lipkin-Shahak. The early line is that Netanyahu will push for new elections just before May 4, the day Yasser Arafat says he will declare an independent Palestinian state. His gamble: that such an ominous deadline will give enough Israelis cold feet to create a majority...
...well be remembered as the summit that provided no footholds and no escape. Barely two days after President Clinton met with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Clinton faces a snowballing impeachment movement and Netanyahu faces early elections, probably in the spring. The prime minister announced Wednesday that he would take his hard-line peace policies to the electorate if he could not muster support for them from the Knesset next Monday. Netanyahu's right wing is in shambles over how much hard line and how much peace there should be in those policies. "We're going to elections," predicted confidently...
...between right and left," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. The country has developed a strong consensus for peace, but the devil is in the details over what concessions should be made. The immediate impact of elections "will be to put the whole process on hold," says Beyer. "Netanyahu, who is not eager to implement the latest Wye agreements, will use the election campaign to delay matters until the electorate speaks." So much for this week's summit...
...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...