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Netanyahu's supporters say his record in office was good. "Bibi cut the budget, and he reduced terrorist attacks," says Yuval Steinitz, a Likud parliamentarian. "It's his personal behavior that cost him his job." Besides, they contend, Netanyahu got a bad rap because he led the opposition when a right-winger assassinated Rabin in 1995--a time when Israel was deeply divided on the merits of the peace process. But Israel now is not what it was then. "People believed Pollyannaishly in the Oslo accords," Netanyahu says. "I was accused of foiling the dream. This time it's clear...
...more powerful nations. As a member state, the party warns, Switzerland could be forced by the Security Council to take part in international sanctions and military actions. "We would also lose the right to have our own foreign policy and diplomatic relations," says Ulrich Schlüer, an SVP parliamentarian, apparently overlooking the fact that the foreign policies of current members such as the United States and Iraq have yet to converge. Lurking behind his party's opposition is the deeper fear that joining the U.N. would be a stalking horse for full European integration. After last year's defeat...
...despite the escalation, there are also small but significant and growing signs of new thinking emerging in the region. The Jerusalem Post carried a commentary by leftwing parliamentarian Naomi Chazan on a recent Israeli-Palestinian sit-down in South Africa, in which both sides apprised themselves of the lessons of that country's near-miraculous negotiated peaceful transition away from minority rule. And in Egypt's official Al Ahram, commentator Hani Shukrallah offers a withering critique of an intifada hijacked by suicide bombers. "The Biblical Samson strikes a ridiculous, rather than heroic, figure," he writes. "Not to mention that...
...bill, which council parliamentarian P.K. Agarwalla ’04 said “will change the psychological meaning of abstention,” sparked significant debate before being approved by the two-thirds margin required...
...Some have wondered if non-practicing Jew Harriet T. Vostock ‘02’s relationship with Hillel parliamentarian Avi C. Nehumi ’02 has rekindled her spiritual flame. “Nope,” responded Vostock, using a microwave on the Sabbath to heat up her meal of milk-battered pork-fried...