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Soft. That word may be the root of Shimon Peres' galling defeat. Many voters mistrusted his New Middle East as just the feel-good visions of a naif. His attempt to buttress his security credentials by ordering a callous 17-day bombardment of Lebanon that killed as many as 200...
Questions of character also counted. An aura of slipperiness has long dogged Peres' five-decade political career. Once a relative hawk who helped launch the very first West Bank settlements in the 1970s, Peres turned into a promoter of peace so dreamy that his about-face was read by some...
The dark side of his reputation perhaps unfairly clouds the elder statesman's very real history of achievement. During service in virtually every major Cabinet post, Peres built Israel's military industry from scratch, initiated development of its nuclear bomb program, extracted the country from its disastrous war in Lebanon...
Peres' career is finished, and Israel's last direct link to its founding fathers is gone. Israeli political consultant Ron Werber calls Peres' indomitable path in politics "a via dolorosa" that has led through triumph to final humiliation and grave disappointment. After this last and most anguishing loss, Labor is...
It is Wednesday evening, the night of the Israeli elections, and the atmosphere in the Gaza City home of Nabil Shaath is quiet and tense. About a dozen people have gathered to watch the returns. Most are top aides to Yasser Arafat. Shaath, the Palestinian Authority's Minister of International...