Word: perese
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The bombers' timing couldn't have been better. Hours after Israel and the Palestinian Authority began taking tentative steps toward implementing a cease-fire agreement, terrorists detonated a car bomb in a crowded Jerusalem market, killing two Israelis and injuring nine others. The attack dramatically increases the strain on the...
The Peres-Arafat truce had been an unlikely end to a day of gun battles that claimed the lives of six Palestinians and three Israeli soldiers. The escalation of the shooting war had prompted Barak to prepare new harsh counter-measures Wednesday, but those were suspended after the latest truce...
While six Palestinians killed in a single day would enrage but not surprise a Palestinian population that has lost upwards of 150 people in five weeks, for Israelis the loss of three soldiers in a combat situation in the West Bank came as a shock. Compounded by a terrorist bombing...
The Labor party, which governed Israel for the first three decades of its independence, has borne the brunt of the resultant hostility, and despite apologizing for its past ill-treatment of the Sephardim, it continues to suffer their ire. Shas recently bolted Prime Minister Ehud Barak's coalition, and last...
And the vultures were already circling after the Knesset (including some members of his own party) slapped down Barak by choosing opposition candidate Moshe Katsav for the ceremonial post of president over the prime minister's choice, Nobel Peace Prize winner and three-time prime minister Shimon Peres. That vote...