Word: palestinian
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...election did not always seem so tight. Late last fall, with Israel plagued by Palestinian terror attacks, polls showed Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and of the center-left Labor Party running behind Netanyahu of the nationalistic Likud. When Rabin was murdered in November by a right-wing assassin trying to sabotage the peace process, the country swung behind Labor and its new leader, Peres. Since then, subsequent terror strikes have eroded that edge to a few percentage points...
...Likud campaign responds by painting Peres as Pollyannaish, irresponsible and apt to sell out Israel's interests to the Arabs. One ad shows him walking hand in hand with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and calls the two "a dangerous couple." As for convincing undecideds that Netanyahu is up to the job, the Likud's greatest obstacle is his relative inexperience; his only public service has been as charge at the Israeli embassy in Washington, U.N. ambassador, Deputy Foreign Minister and Knesset member. To make the 47-year-old candidate appear more statesmanlike, Likud ads place him in a wood-paneled...
Peres, as the incumbent, was able to back his turnabout with deeds. In the wake of the last round of suicide bombings in late February and early March, he ordered what has turned out to be the longest ban ever on Palestinian workers crossing into Israel. In response to Katyusha rocket attacks on northern Israel by Hizballah guerrillas in Lebanon, Peres last month launched a massive 17-day bombardment of Lebanon. But the killing of more than 100 innocent civilians at Qana (see box) has alienated Israel's Arab minority, who make up some 15% of the population and whose...
TIME: When Clinton said at the March 13 "Summit of the Peacemakers" convened at Sharm el-Sheikh that the Palestinian Hamas and Islamic Jihad groups and Lebanese Hizballah were "enemies of peace," did you regard it as a declaration...
...proceed with the withdrawal of troops from the West Bank town of Hebron. The pullback, which was supposed to have begun in March, was put on hold after suicide bombings that killed 63. Worried about recent warnings of terrorist attacks by groups opposed to the peace process with the Palestinians, Peres has said he might consider postponing the withdrawal. A might be the politically smart thing to do as elections approach, says Jerusalem Bureau Chief Lisa Beyer: "The pullout from Hebron is certainly going to entail the necessity of cracking down on fanatical settlers who live there and it will...