Word: perese
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The Bush administration's global anti-terror campaign has given it an overriding interest in restarting some form of Israeli-Palestinian peace process - and America is not finding Prime Minister Ariel Sharon particularly eager to play ball. Before the dust had settled on the World Trade Center ruins, Sharon ordered...
The 85,000 Jews in Germany - a country that has maintained close ties with Israel since its founding - have also pushed their government to intervene more forcefully in the conflict, with results: since his Middle East visit last month, Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer has taken the lead in trying to...
Expect nothing to come of the latest proposed Israeli-Palestinian talks, and you're unlikely to be disappointed. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres are scheduled to meet sometime this week, probably at the Erez border crossing between Israel and Gaza. And that prompted Palestinian militants...
But even without Israel imposing a "buffer zone" on the West Bank, Arafat remains in an uncomfortable position. Sharon insists there will be no discussion of political concessions before a cease-fire has taken hold, and he's dead set against any resumption of the Oslo process. But a cease...
Like Arafat, Peres's own political position is in large part dependent on the survival of some kind of peace process, too. As an architect of Oslo, he too wants to maintain his place in history as a leader who won security for Israel at the negotiating table. And like...