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Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's official reason for his weekend resignation was the cabinet's final rubber stamp vote on Israel's withdrawal from its Gaza Strip settlements, which is due to begin next week. The real motivation for quitting now lies a lot more than a week away-it's next year's Israeli general election. By resigning, Netanyahu believes he'll be able to capitalize on any problems Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon runs into with the "disengagement plan," particularly if Palestinian militants launch rocket attacks over the fence into Israel once the soldiers leave Gaza...
...refreshing to read the article on terrorism by Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's Ambassador to the U.N. [SPECIAL SECTION, April 14]. Thank God people are beginning to realize that terrorists are not soldiers fighting for a cause, but cowards who kill for the sport of it. Yvonne S. Perry Baltimore...
Instead of publishing Ambassador Netanyahu's views, you should devote your columns to explaining how much Israel has contributed to so-called terrorism. The current level of violence is only the tip of the iceberg. Denying the Palestinian issue is leading to global disaster. Farooque Rizwy Brooklyn Park, Minn...
...Feith was the most overripe of neocons-a man who served as an adviser to Israel's then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (he advised Netanyahu to invade Iraq); a man who was "in charge" of postwar "planning" for our invasion of Iraq; a man who oversaw the Office of Special Plans, which hyped evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq; a man whom General Tommy Franks once called "the dumbest f______ guy on the planet." To be sure, much of the neocon dream team survives at the Pentagon, but friends of Rumsfeld have noted that he is less enchanted...
...interview on Monday, Summers declined to say with which Israeli leaders he met, but they included Sharon, Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom and Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to an individual in Israel with knowledge of the details of Summers’ visit. Summers also met with two other former Israeli prime ministers, Shimon Peres and Ehud Barak, the source said...