Word: shimon
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...order to exile them from the West Bank signaled Israel's despair - the move, yet to be legally approved by Israel's attorney general, would formalize the principle of collective punishment, and it raised alarm among Israeli human rights groups. But the fact that even dovish foreign minister Shimon Peres appeared to support the principle of exiling the families of bombers revealed the dearth of new ideas on how to deal with the relentless terror onslaught...
...will remain in the territories for a long time, and asked that the international community take care of aiding their inhabitants." Thus, while Sharon is content for Powell and the Quartet to discuss reforming the Palestinian Authority and providing humanitarian aid to ordinary Palestinians - and even for foreign minister Shimon Peres to hold similarly limited discussions with PA representatives other than Arafat - he has no plans for renewed political dialogue with the Palestinians, at least as long as Arafat is their leader...
...long-term interests in the region, particularly the war on terrorism and the proposed campaign against Iraq. After consulting with allies, President Bush began to add comments about supporting Palestinian statehood to his denunciations of Palestinian terrorism. The State Department, Washington's Arab allies and even Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres had, it seemed, convinced Bush that there was no chance of curbing Palestinian terrorism without restoring some hope among the Palestinians that there was a peaceful route to independence. But the countervailing pressure remained strong: Bush administration hawks urged the President to refrain from pressing for political concessions...
...than any progress towards peace. Those who believe in Oslo's basic premise - that Israel and the Palestinian Authority can find their way to peace through bilateral negotiations - are fast becoming an endangered species. (Indeed, the only mainstream Israeli leader who still talks in these terms is Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, and even in his own Labor Party his views are considered somewhat eccentric.) The deteriorating situation on the ground may soon leave Washington and its allies with the choice of either letting the two sides bleed, or else contemplating the politically perilous notion of forcibly separating them...
...have ended and the PA has been reformed. His Labor Party coalition partners, sensing the possibility of an early election, have resurrected the Clinton proposals for Israeli withdrawal from most of the West Bank and Gaza and sharing Jerusalem as the basis for a political settlement. And Foreign Minister Shimon Peres is floating a proposal to begin immediate negotiations over Palestinian statehood by getting the U.S. and its diplomatic partners to provide the necessary security guarantees until such time as the PA has been mended...