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...intentions of Israel's leaders came under further question last week, when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's father, the historian Ben-Zion Netanyahu, told an Israeli TV interviewer that he had been told by his son that he did not support the creation of a Palestinian state. Despite Benjamin Netanyahu's having accepted the goal in principle under pressure from Washington, his father said the Prime Minister had done so only on the basis of conditions that were impossible for the Palestinians to ever accept...
Then, in an interview published on July 10, Netanyahu's national security chief and key adviser, Uzi Arad, said the Palestinians, including Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, were not committed to living in peace with Israel. "Even the moderates among them do not really want a settlement," Arad said. "At most, they are striving toward a settlement in order to renew the confrontation from a better position." As a result of U.S. pressure, a Palestinian state of "stamps, parades, carnival [...] That could happen," Arad said. "A fragile structure, yes; an arrangement resting wholly on wobbly foundations...
...sexism of family laws across the Muslim world. Little wonder that in the blogopshere, he managed to unite feminists and conservatives in fury at his reduction of Muslim women to nothing more than what they wear on their heads. "Why this emphasis on the hijab," blogged Amal Amireh, a Palestinian feminist, "as if it is the essence of what a Muslim woman...
...becoming active in the right-wing Likud Party. In the late '80s, he and his wife moved to Nokdim, a rugged West Bank settlement overlooking the Judaean desert, where he still lives. (Each night, he is driven home in an armored car, since portions of his commute pass by Palestinian villages...
...impatience among Israelis with the country's Arab citizens, some of whom openly sided with Hamas during Israel's offensive against the militant group last winter. "His views have a constituency," says Hanegbi. "People want someone who will represent their fears and frustrations." Lieberman insists he supports an independent Palestinian state and says Israel is "ready to start negotiations without preconditions." But in Lieberman's view, peace doesn't mean cohabitation. "His governing idea is, Jews on one side, Arabs on the other," says a senior official...