Word: retreatism
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...plainly in no hurry to relieve the mounting domestic political pressure on Barak to withdraw from Lebanon. The Israeli prime minister set himself a July deadline for withdrawing his forces, unilaterally if necessary. Barak would prefer, of course, to have negotiated security guarantees with Syria to cover that retreat. Despite ratcheting up the pressure, though, Damascus doesn't want a unilateral Israeli withdrawal. "If Israel leaves Lebanon before there's a comprehensive peace deal with Syria," says TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott McLeod, "the Syrians lose one of their most powerful bargaining chips - their ability to keep the peace...
...because guaranteeing Israeli security there is one of Syria's prime bargaining chips," says MacLeod. Still, with Hezbollah now expected to fire rockets into Israel itself in retaliation for the bombing - despite Israel's warning that it would respond with even heavier bombing - Israel may find it difficult to retreat in the short term...
Barak had promised in last year's election campaign to effect a unilateral withdrawal from Lebanon by July, but with the stalled Israeli-Syrian peace talks unlikely to produce Syrian security guarantees along the Lebanese border, retreat remains risky - and that's a fact not lost on Damascus. "Syria has the ability to shut down Hezbollah, but with no sign of movement in talks with Israel over the Golan Heights, it may have little incentive to do that," says TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott MacLeod. "Hezbollah, though, has its own reasons for raising the temperature. It wants to boost...
...This is different from being a Nieman, which is kind of a professional retreat, because it has a lot more student interaction that I'm really excited about," Fulwood said. "For fellows this is a great break because we deal in our workaday lives so much that it is very helpful to be able to step back while meeting young people interested in our areas...
Over the weekend, committee members will go into a retreat to reconsider the goals laid out by the committee two years...