Word: shimon
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...give-no-quarter right and the peacenik ideology of the left. Labor voters seeking tough security and Likud voters ready for pragmatic solutions flocked to Kadima. So did high-profile luminaries from both parties, including a cluster of ranking Likud leaders and Labor's Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres. Polls taken early this month showed Kadima would trounce its rivals, giving Sharon a rarity in Israeli politics: a strong and stable mandate to go on doing what he was doing...
...conservative Likud party, which he himself had founded some 30 years earlier. He proceeded to establish a new party named Kadima, which in Hebrew means “forward.” And indeed, we Israelis felt that this was the direction in which he was leading us. Even Shimon Peres, our elder statesmen and the father of the peace camp, left his Labor party to join Kadima. As the head of his new party, Sharon asked the public for a final four years to make peace. And the public agreed. According to all polls, these two icons of Israeli...
...exhausted Peretz, 53, ran between meetings with Labor lawmakers and his predecessor as party leader, Shimon Peres, he told TIME that he plans to quit Sharon's government immediately and force elections as early as next March. He hopes to draw voters with a social agenda that includes a higher minimum wage and government-subsidized pensions. He hopes the program will attract poorer people who have dismissed Labor as a party for the rich, particularly Arab voters and Jews whose origins, like Peretz's own, lie in the Arab world. Officials in Sharon's Likud Party and others who have...
...became Prime Minister in 1974 after a stint as ambassador to Washington. His tenure cut short in 1977 by a scandal over a small but illegal U.S. bank account he maintained with his wife, he retreated to Labor's back bench until 1984, when the national unity government of Shimon Peres, his bitter rival within the Labor Party, turned to him as Defense Minister. Rabin seemed just the man to suppress the intifadeh -- the uprising against Israeli rule in the occupied territories that began in December 1987. Tough and unrelenting toward the protesters, Rabin is said to have told...
...public.” Whether you’re a Democrat, Republican, Independent, or “not sure,” the IOP can connect you with officials and activists who know how to make the political system work. Whether it’s coming down to hear Shimon Perez articulate his vision for peace in the Middle East or debating with Bob Graham in a study group on the future of health care in America, students are challenged to re-examine their own views and think creatively about today’s most complex issues. The Institute...