Word: shimon
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...While Sharon and the hawks in his cabinet may have little compunction about destroying Arafat politically, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres plainly shares some of Washington's concerns. Arafat may be an unlovely and unreliable negotiating partner, Peres warns, but he's the only one Israel has. If Arafat is eclipsed politically, his successors will be even less inclined to deal with Israel and more committed to war - a war that Israel is unlikely to lose, but equally unlikely to win. Lightly armed Palestinian gunmen and suicide bombers have no hope of forcing Israel to retreat from the West Bank...
...Arab allies against al Qaeda, has opened the most visible rift in years between Israel and the U.S. Israel's rejection of Washington's call to withdraw its forces from Palestinian Authority-controlled towns persisted after Tuesday's meeting between Secretary of State Colin Powell and Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres in Washington. After the meeting, Peres reiterated Israel's insistence that it will remain in six Palestinian towns until Yasser Arafat agrees to hand over the gunmen responsible for last week's assassination of Israeli cabinet minister Rehavam Zeevi, while Powell's spokesman repeated Washington's call...
...will probably be no different from what they've been doing until now, although possibly on a larger scale. Even if it's not on a larger scale, this will certainly mean a reversal for efforts to revive peace talks. Last Friday, (Israeli foreign minister Shimon) told the Palestinians that Israel would ease the closure of Palestinian areas, and they had started to do that on Sunday. Israel did still retain the right to assassinate Hamas people, however, which they've been doing every day since Sunday...
...uprising in the West Bank and Gaza provides ample proof of why Israel has not been able to lift road closures and checkpoints. The very same day that the Israeli army eased closures in the Gaza Strip as arranged by Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasir Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, two Hamas terrorists infiltrated a Jewish settlement and killed two Israeli teenagers. In exchange for the lifting of roadblocks, Arafat was supposed to clamp down on Hamas and other terrorist organizations. Israeli intelligence claims that Arafat had prior knowledge of the Hamas attack but did nothing to prevent...
...Pressure from Washington, as well as Yasser Arafat's recent attempts to rein in militants and ingratiate himself with the U.S. has also been weighing heavily on Sharon's own unity government. He is reportedly at odds with his foreign minister, Shimon Peres, over whether talks with Arafat should continue. Peres insists that Arafat remains Israel's best hope for finding a Palestinian negotiating partner and that resuming the peace process is of critical importance; Sharon believes Arafat can't be trusted and is resisting allowing any further talks. But while he carries the solid support of most...