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Rees: It depends on what you mean by a settlement freeze. A majority may be prepared to say no new settlements, but even Shimon Peres and the Labor Party are saying there should be natural expansion of existing settlements. So if you took a poll on whether there should be...
With so much blame to go around and such thirst for revenge, neither side's leadership seems willing or able to find a way out. Sharon called the deaths a "horrific murder" and ordered a missile strike on Yasser Arafat's Fatah offices in Gaza City, which wounded 20 Palestinians...
Not really. The conditions that led them into the unity government haven't really changed. And remember, it's not just Sharon making these decisions. The Defense Minister, Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, who has had a strong hand in these decisions is actually a candidate for the Labor Party leadership. Sharon...
Diplomatic jockeying over a cease-fire appeared to be intensifying on the eve of the latest attack, with the Palestinian Authority endorsing the recommendations of the report by former Senator George Mitchell on the causes of violence and Israel moving towards a compromise on the vexed question of settlement construction...
And if he could afford to politically, that is what he'd do. But he's not in a very easy position, both because of diplomatic pressure because of pressure from his coalition allies in the Labor Party. He's hoping Peres will find some sort of diplomatic formulation that...