Word: shimon
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LONDON: Amnesty International has determined that Israeli artillery forces deliberately shelled a U.N. base last April in southern Lebanon. Israeli Defense Forces have maintained that they were aiming for Hizballah guerrillas nearby but missed their target; former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres said again last week that the Israeli military did not know the U.N. position had become a camp of refugees. Despite Peres' claim that "nothing was done intentionally," the Amnesty International report released Wednesday finds that the Israeli Defense Forces had deliberately attacked the Qana compound April 18, killing 91 civilians in violation of international rules...
LONDON: Amnesty International has determined that Israeli artillery forces deliberately shelled a U.N. base last April in southern Lebanon. Israeli Defense Forces have maintained that they were aiming for Hizballah guerrillas nearby but missed their target; former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres said again last week that the Israeli military did not know the U.N. position had become a camp of refugees. Despite Peres' claim that "nothing was done intentionally," the Amnesty International report released Wednesday finds that the Israeli Defense Forces had deliberately attacked the Qana compound April 18, killing 91 civilians in violation of international rules...
...with the Palestinians or for not resuming the negotiations even though nothing substantive came out of the meeting. "There was no progress on setting a date for the Israeli redeployment from Hebron or resuming negotiations on the interim or permanent status agreements," says Silver. The Hebron negotiations, reached with Shimon Peres' Labor government, are still a sore point between the Palestinians and Netanyahu's government. Silver reports that Arafat's point of view is that all the security concerns have already been negotiated and accepted by the previous government. Meanwhile, Netanyahu continues to hold a hardline stance, refusing to meet...
...that security would come before peace. "Israel is eager to make progress, but we cannot to do it alone," Netanyahu said. "We want to live up to agreements but cannot be the only ones. We yield to no one in our desire for peace." Clinton, of course, had supported Shimon Peres, the narrow loser in the May 29 Israeli election and the surest ticket to continued peace talks with Syria under U.S. auspices. Although Netanyahu had clearly set out to warm up relations with the White House, he rejected unconditional peace talks with Syria and said he had no plans...
...Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's first popularly elected prime minister, was en route to Washington Monday for his first meeting with President Clinton since he narrowly won the May 16 election. The conservative Netanyahu's mission: to win over Clinton, who had made clear his preference for former Prime Minister Shimon Peres and the Middle East peace negotiations he had championed. Netanyahu, by contrast, campaigned on promises that could halt the peace talks in their tracks: he vowed not to cede the Golan Heights to Syria, not to stop Jewish settlements in the West Bank and to put off the redeployment...