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...city of Jerusalem may end up paying a heavy price for Benjamin Netanyahu's election campaign. That's what the hawkish Israeli prime minister is being accused of in the wake of his decision to close Orient House, the Palestinian Authority's unofficial headquarters in the city. Israeli opposition leaders charged on Friday that Netanyahu made the move knowing that likely Palestinian unrest in the heart of Jerusalem would work for him on the eve of Israel's election. "This may have created a very dangerous situation, but it's politically expedient for Netanyahu," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa...
...Netanyahu announced Thursday that Israel would close down Orient House, saying meetings there between a Palestinian Authority official and European diplomats violated Israel's sovereignty. But Netanyahu's crackdown presents a complex challenge for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. "A wave of protests on this issue would give Arafat an opportunity to rally his own supporters, who've had to accept some backing down over the promise to declare a Palestinian state on May 4," says Beyer. On the other hand, the reason for Arafat's soft-pedaling the statehood issue has been a desire to avoid stampeding Israeli voters...
...Muslim, Raslan is one of the 1 million Israeli Arabs living in the country of 6 million. Stressing that her crowning had nothing to do with politics, Raslan declared, "The judges picked me because they thought I was the most beautiful." Others saw deeper meaning. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Raslan's selection was a "manifestation of equality and cooperation between Jews and Arabs in Israel." Note to U.N. delegates: When all else fails, try an evening-wear competition...
...much needed victory for Albright, a validation of her speak-loudly-and-carry-a-tomahawk diplomacy. Since she took office two years ago, America's first female Secretary of State has done plenty of loud talking. Her ultimatums--delivered to leaders as different as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Iraq's Saddam Hussein--have become a common refrain in international diplomacy. And the cost of ignoring her is often a rain of missiles...
...friends, and the embargo imposed on a defeated Saddam has savaged Jordan's economy as well. The King deeply mourned the assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, with whom he had hoped to mold a Palestinian state, and many Jordanians grew embittered at the hard-line policies of Benjamin Netanyahu. In Hussein's lifetime, when Jordan may have had its best chance, the country never developed into a constitutional democracy...