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...will thoroughly dominate the Administration, and he will treat most of his Cabinet Secretaries like slightly dim distant cousins. In Israel matters have always been different. Ministers there control powerful baronies, and they push hard on the Prime Minister, as do party elders and testy coalition partners. Now Benjamin Netanyahu, who announced his Cabinet last week, is trying to break the old traditions, consolidate power in his own hands and become Israel's first American President-style Prime Minister. He is not finding it easy...
...impulse comes naturally to Netanyahu, though. He spent a total of 16 years in the U.S., as a student, management consultant and diplomat. "He lived and breathed American culture and politics," says Zvi Rafiah, a former Israeli diplomat. "From the point of view of governing style, he is an American." Indeed, Netanyahu has borrowed directly from the U.S. system to create two new agencies to advise him in the hope of siphoning off power from the ministries. Even the names are the same as in Washington: the National Security Council and the Council of Economic Advisers...
JERUSALEM: Benjamin Netanyahu is doing nothing to quiet fears that his election will mean the end of the peace process. At first, the new Israeli prime minister sounded conciliatory Tuesday when he announced that he would pursue negotiations with Syria, Lebanon and other Arab countries with no preconditions for peace. But in the next breath, Netanyahu rendered his own promise meaningless: he said any agreement with Syria would involve Israel retaining control of the Golan Heights, that his government is opposed to the creation of a Palestinian state and that he will expand Jewish settlements in the West Bank...
...minority of Israelis has had a change of heart about peace. Having been in the territories a couple of months ago and seen what the devastation of the Israeli-American peace process has wrought on the Palestinians, I came to the painful conclusion that better a crude and brutal Netanyahu than a posturing--but also crude and brutal, judging by his actions in the territories and in Lebanon--Peres...
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