Word: shimon
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...region?s preeminent moderate Arab leader, Egypt?s President Hosni Mubarak to warn that dire consequences would follow an Arafat expulsion and that - notwithstanding U.S. and Israeli efforts to sideline him - ''no Palestinian prime minister will succeed without the help of Arafat.? Even Sharon?s former foreign minister, Shimon Peres, warned that expulsion would be an ?historic mistake? that would only strengthen Arafat?s grip on Palestinian politics. Despite having long ago been branded ?irrelevant? by Sharon and banished from the diplomatic itineraries of the Bush administration, Thursday?s actions capped a month-long performance in which Yasser Arafat...
...potato into President Bush's lap. Qureia, the popular speaker of the Palestinian legislature and key Oslo negotiator, is widely known as a moderate opposed to the armed intifada, who maintains close ties with many European, Arab and even some Israeli leaders (including Sharon's former foreign minister, Shimon Peres). He's not exactly a toady of Yasser Arafat, having clashed publicly with him on previous occasions - in many ways, Qureia's political pedigree is not dissimilar from that of Abbas, except that his personal relationship with Arafat is far stronger. But the question of Arafat is political rather than...
...seen whether either Mitznah or Ramon is considered a credible candidate by the party's base or were simply a protest-vote choice of activists looking to get ben-Eliezer out of the government. Labor's decision also inserts curious question mark after the name of foreign minister Shimon Peres. There is considerable speculation in Israel that the former prime minister might choose to quit his own party and remain at Sharon's side as an independent rather than follow ben-Eliezer on a path that, for Peres personally, may end in political oblivion...
...committee at the Grand Hotel. The Little Dinner, as it's called, is a chance "for a face-to-face, heart-to-heart talk," says St?lsett. "The laureate knows he has our respect - so it's fun." The most memorable Little Dinner was in 1994, when Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin broke bread together. They talked "like old friends," recalls Lundestad, "about Jerusalem, block by block, who lived where, about the city's past, about its present situation...
...Israel, the triumphalism that followed the air strike - Prime Minister Sharon called it one of Israel's "greatest successes" - quickly turned into a chorus of self-flagellation Wednesday in the face of fierce international criticism over the civilian casualties. Israel's President Moshe Katsav, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and a number of military officials described the decision to drop a one-ton bomb in densely populated Gaza as a mistake. The IDF and the Shin Bet security service even launched an inquiry into the "intelligence failure" that resulted in such high civilian casualties...