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Ariel Sharon was elected on promises that he'd play the bad cop with the Palestinians, but he needed a good cop - that's why he tapped Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres as his foreign minister. So while Sharon, on Thursday, was promising new tough tactics in retaliation for...
The Peres visit has already peeved the Palestinians, who are incensed that the White House has twice hosted Israeli leaders in the first four months of the Bush administration, while Yasser Arafat has not yet been invited. "The U.S. can't keep listening only to the Israeli side," a senior...
Anything is possible in the world of hypotheticals, and it is in that realm that the latest Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire plan resides. Transpose it into the harsh light of contemporary reality, and the chances are minimal of it being anything but stillborn. Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres arrived in...
Peres's purpose, of course, is to apprise Washington of Israel?s reservations over the proposals. And to be sure, Israel - like the Palestinians - has plenty of cause for skepticism over the plan. Indeed, it's hard to avoid seeing the latest proposals from Amman and Cairo as a warmed...
And the question of how Palestinian attacks will be ended is only one flaw in the proposal. Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon has instructed Peres to make clear Israel has problems with a blanket freeze on settlement activity. He's also questioning the four-week timetable, proposing a three-month...