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JERUSALEM: The four-year moratorium on the construction of Jewish settlements in Gaza and the West Bank may be over. Israeli Army radio reported Monday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is living up to his hardline promises and is expected to allow new settlements and construction by the end of the week. Netanhayu has repeatedly promised to expand Jewish settlement in spite of stiff opposition from the Palestinian Authority, which sees more Israeli settlers as obstacles to a Palestinian state. "Netanyahu's decision to expand settlements is going to create trouble," says TIME's Jamil Hamad in Jerusalem. "The Palestinians...
EREZ CHECKPOINT, Gaza Strip: The Likud opened the path to negotiations with Palestinians Tuesday with the meeting between Foreign Minister David Levy and Yasser Arafat. It is the first time a high-level official from Benjamin Netanyahu's newly-elected government has met with the man long branded a terrorist by the Likud. "The importance of this meeting is that it took place," reports TIME's Eric Silver. "They broke the ice. It was successful in that they both shook hands warmly and seemed to have a good rapport." After Tuesday's meeting, Silver says, the Likud will have...
When it was over and the two leaders turned to walk away down the red carpet, Clinton reached out and put his arm around Netanyahu. It was an instinctive gesture for the President, an effort to convey warmth amid a general chill. Awkwardly, Netanyahu reciprocated...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's third wife Sara was a flight attendant for El Al. Watching a well-organized first-class stewardess ladle out champagne at 25,000 ft. appears to do something to a politician, for Netanyahu is not alone among world leaders who have got hitched to stewardesses...
...years. He continues to campaign for peace with the Palestinians through speeches and writings. Author of a forthcoming book on post-cold war diplomacy, he's currently in New York City preparing a PBS film on the Middle East peace process. Will new hard-line Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threaten its path? "The peace process is in abeyance until he gives some clarification," says Eban. "If it is not going to be followed through, it's a cosmic event in the history of the Middle East...