Word: perese
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The continued uprising in the West Bank and Gaza provides ample proof of why Israel has not been able to lift road closures and checkpoints. The very same day that the Israeli army eased closures in the Gaza Strip as arranged by Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasir Arafat and Israeli Foreign...
Pressure from Washington, as well as Yasser Arafat's recent attempts to rein in militants and ingratiate himself with the U.S. has also been weighing heavily on Sharon's own unity government. He is reportedly at odds with his foreign minister, Shimon Peres, over whether talks with Arafat should continue...
POLAND Election Surprise Poland's Democratic Left Alliance and its coalition partner the Labor Union took 216 seats in parliament, 15 short of an overall majority. Significant blocks of seats went to parties opposed to Poland's accession to the European Union. Self-Defense, the peasants' party led by populist...
Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, for his part, has plainly had to have his arm twisted even to go along with the latest cease-fire effort - it reportedly took a week of daily phone calls from Washington to convince him to allow last week's meeting between Arafat and foreign...
Wednesday's meeting between Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat to discuss restoring the failed cease-fire was less significant for what it achieved (not much) than for the fact that it happened at all. Although the meeting was arranged before the September 11 attacks, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had immediately...