Word: netanyahu
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WASHINGTON: When he visits the White House Tuesday, Benjamin Netanyahu can expect to get an earful on his government's proposed limited and conditional withdrawal from the West Bank. "Prospects for the meeting are pretty grim," says TIME State Department correspondent Dean Fischer. "All the U.S. can hope for is to stop the process going completely off the rails by keeping the two sides talking about certain practical areas, and wait for Netanyahu's government to collapse...
Israel: Playing for Time Benjamin Netanyahu's meeting with President Clinton is unlikely to produce much motion in the Middle East...
JERUSALEM: Benjamin Netanyahu cheated defeat again Monday and passed his budget despite the resignation on Sunday of his Foreign Minister David Levy. But the loss of Levy has hobbled Netanyahu, says TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Lisa Beyer, and the Prime Minister will likely face new elections within six months...
...Levy?s resignation was prompted both by a budget that he believed failed Israel?s poor and by the stagnation in Israeli peace efforts ? the foreign minister had made no effort to conceal his frustration at Netanyahu?s disregard for Israel?s commitments in the peace process. Beyer says a bitter personal rivalry between the two men also prompted Levy to choose a critical moment to pull the plug on Netanyahu?s government...
...Knesset, Netanyahu retains only the slimmest of majorities; a single defection would bring down his government, says Beyer. "And many members of his own party have openly conspired against him," she says. "Netanyahu has a knack for surviving. But this is his deepest crisis...