Word: perese
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Mounting violence in Palestinian territories, coinciding with Washington's urgent need for Arab allies against al Qaeda, has opened the most visible rift in years between Israel and the U.S. Israel's rejection of Washington's call to withdraw its forces from Palestinian Authority-controlled towns persisted after Tuesday's...
Withdrawal will not be easy for the Israelis, because even after the Powell meeting Peres insisted that Israel could not leave before Arafat handed over Zeevi's killers - a point hammered home by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon Monday when he flatly rejected the Bush administration's call. But the Palestinian...
Some people had seen a positive sign in the resignations from the cabinet of Zeevi and another right-winger, Avigdor Lieberman - they believed that would give Peres and other more dovish elements greater sway over Sharon. But the assassination of Zeevi may change everything. This may be a defining moment...
The prospect of renewed negotiations was the main reason that Zeevi and his party were quitting the government. But there was also pressure from inside Likud, from people like Uzi Landau, saying they would have to consider their options if Sharon began talking to Arafat, so he was under a...
Perhaps Sharon would like for it to have changed everything. But what hasn't changed, as Peres continued to say in cabinet today even though he got lambasted for it, is that there is no solution that has been overlooked so far that Sharon can now turn to. There is...