Word: perese
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The other major theme of Week 5 at war was that hardy perennial, Middle East peace. There was Tony Blair in Washington cajoling President Bush, and Israel withdrawing from recently reoccupied West Bank towns. But the Israeli media was seized by reports that foreign minister Shimon Peres was urging Ariel...
Sharon needs to show Israelis that he's hitting back at the Palestinians, after the assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze'evi two weeks ago by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. But truly cutting the power of the Palestinian militias would require putting special units in...
While Sharon and the hawks in his cabinet may have little compunction about destroying Arafat politically, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres plainly shares some of Washington's concerns. Arafat may be an unlovely and unreliable negotiating partner, Peres warns, but he's the only one Israel has. If Arafat is eclipsed...
Foreign Minister Peres appears to share at least some of Washington's concerns. Many in his Labor Party fear that Sharon is responding to pressure from within his own Likud Party to destroy the Palestinian Authority and drive Arafat back into exile. Peres's primary concern, however, is that Sharon...
As long as Peres believes in negotiating with Arafat, he has plenty of reason for concern over strategies that erode the Palestinian leader's domestic political standing. Repeated incursions into PA territory may raise pressure on Arafat to do more against the militants, but they also undermine his ability to...