Word: shimon
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...Hizbollah and Israeli forces occupying Southern Lebanon. Despite two UN resolutions calling for the immediate withdrawal of Israeli troops, Israel has occupied the area since 1985 in an attempt to stop guerrilla raids on settlements in northern Israel. The bombing came a day after warnings from Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres that guerrillas in Lebanon will pay for increasing assaults on Israeli troops. Shortly after the attack, Israeli troops opened fire on several Lebanese villages north of Israeli-held territory. It?s not yet known if there were any civilian casualties...
Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres took it all in. The bombers, Islamist radicals determined to wreck the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, had just claimed their 56th victim in nine days. They had turned Israeli public opinion so strongly against Peres' dovish policies that he was in serious danger of losing power in May 29 elections. For the first time, terrorists had put the nascent peace, the project on which Peres' place in history depends, in serious jeopardy...
...reverse the peace process. If Peres hits back too hard, he risks unraveling the peace by making an enemy of Arafat and hopelessly antagonizing the Palestinians. Between those alternatives there isn't much room. Said former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Sam Lewis: "Both the peace process and Shimon Peres are on life support...
Christopher suggested a summit meeting on terrorism to Clinton. Shimon Peres liked the idea, and so did Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Clinton decided to go ahead. He and Mubarak jointly invited Peres, the P.L.O.'s Yasser Arafat, Jordan's King Hussein, Russian President Boris Yeltsin and European and regional leaders to a conference this week at Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik. Christopher also telephoned Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk Shara. "I'll be pleasantly surprised if the Syrians attend," he said...
...Palestinian lands remain sealed off, as they have been for the past two and a half weeks. Wednesday, for the first time, a convoy of food trucks was allowed to pass into the Gaza Strip but Palestinian produce, still not allowed into Israel, rots at the roadblocks. Prime Minister Shimon Peres vowed to keep Palestinian lands sealed off until those responsible for the bombings are in jail. The block imposed February 25 has created food shortages, widespread unemployment and an increasingly angry Palestinian population. Speaking at the summit, Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat condemned Israel's actions, saying they undermine...