Word: shimon
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...representatives, 13 of the besieged, described by Israeli authorities as "senior terrorists," were flown to Cyprus, where they will remain until other arrangements are made for their exile. As a further 26 survivors of the siege were taken to Gaza, Israel withdrew all its troops from Bethlehem. Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said that he expected a "careful and measured" military response to a suicide bombing earlier in the week that had killed 16 Israelis and wounded 57 at a snooker club in the northern town of Rishon Lezion. In Gaza the Palestinian authority police arrested 16 members of the militant...
...number of Israel's top military commanders are aware of the danger that an offensive in Gaza could plunge the region back into the depths of crisis, quickly erasing whatever gains have been made over the past three weeks. For the same reason, Israel's foreign minister, Shimon Peres, stressed that unlike "Operation Defensive Shield" in the West Bank, any actions in Gaza would be short-lived and focused on identifiable strongholds of Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Still, that's easier said than done...
...high with new rules, sweeteners for every camp and unbearable penalties if they balk. It's an approach favored in one form or another by such old hands as Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Adviser in the Carter Administration, and Robert Malley, a former Clinton peace negotiator. Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres thinks the U.S. should at least impose terms for a cease-fire, because "the alternative is another bazaar that will waste time and opportunities." Says Brzezinski: "The U.S. has to face the fact that the parties to the conflict are incapable of reaching a comprehensive peace on their...
Arafat’s defenders—among them European leaders who recently lamented the lack of a procedure to revoke the Nobel Peace Prize from Shimon Peres (of all people!)—claim that Arafat never had the authority to eliminate terrorism. But even if true, that claim is beside the point. Nothing can erase Arafat’s refusal to use the authority that was available to him. Nothing can blot out his calculated cultivation of terrorism...
...have been laughed at. So, too, the idea that the fierce enemy of the Oslo peace process and longtime champion of the movement to settle Israelis in the occupied lands of the West Bank and Gaza could govern in coalition with the likes of Oslo architect and arch-dove Shimon Peres. Equally outlandish, perhaps, was the idea that a man so out of step with the prevailing drift in U.S. policy to settle the Middle East conflict via a land-for-peace swap would manage to turn the White House to his way of thinking. But a week ago, Sharon...