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...camp. Mending Fences? MIDDLE EAST Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon met with three U.S. envoys in Jerusalem in a flurry of diplomatic activity meant to promote his proposal for a unilateral Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank . Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, on a trip to Cairo , secured assurances that Egypt would secure its border with Gaza if Israel pulled out. Palestinian President Yasser Arafat gave guarded support to the plan, on the condition that it be carried out within the framework of the U.S.-sponsored road map to peace. A first meeting between...
...even wanted that opinion. In December, 90 nations voted to ask the ICJ, but 74, including all the E.U. states, abstained. Without Israeli participation, critics say, the hearings have little point other than to provide the Palestinians with a forum for their well-known complaints. Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said the refusal of most countries to take part showed that "the international community neither supports nor wants nor is interested" in the hearings. But to court world opinion, Israel dismantled a chunk of the barrier the day before the ICJ sessions began. That same day, the move was upstaged...
Building Bridges THE MIDDLE EAST Syrian officials last week rejected Israeli President Moshe Katsav's invitation for his Syrian counterpart, Bashar Assad, to visit Jerusalem for talks. But Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom is a traveling man. He's met repeatedly with senior Tunisian, Bahraini, and Qatari officials, as well as King Mohammed VI of Morocco and Jordan's King Abdullah. Next week, Shalom will become the first Israeli Foreign Minister to visit Jordan since the onset of the intifadeh more than three years ago. But the trip Shalom wants most of all, to Damascus, remains out of reach. Senior...
...reversed and a group of breakaway politicians, activists and academics were negotiating a peace treaty or any other treaty or accord with a foreign entity, they would be tried for treason. Only the duly-elected government and their appointed officials have this power and legal authority to do this. Shalom Schwarz Israel...
...must once and for all admit that there is another side ... that it is suffering and that we are behaving disgracefully." AVRAHAM SHALOM, once head of Israel's Shin Bet security agency, on Israel's tough military tactics toward the Palestinians...