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Ariel Sharon was elected on promises that he'd play the bad cop with the Palestinians, but he needed a good cop - that's why he tapped Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres as his foreign minister. So while Sharon, on Thursday, was promising new tough tactics in retaliation for attacks from Palestinian territory, Shimon Peres was in Washington talking the soothing language of peace and negotiations. But the bad cop is still the one on everyone's mind, and despite the language of accord between Peres and both President Bush and Secretary of State Powell following their meetings...
Anything is possible in the world of hypotheticals, and it is in that realm that the latest Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire plan resides. Transpose it into the harsh light of contemporary reality, and the chances are minimal of it being anything but stillborn. Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres arrived in the U.S. Monday for talks with the Bush administration on the plan put forward by Egypt and Jordan to have Israelis and Palestinians resume political dialog after both sides take steps to reduce the current level of violence...
...been fired. Inside his Cabinet, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon faced criticism that he moved into Beit Hanoun without consulting other ministers. "No, no, we couldn't convene the Cabinet," Sharon said, brushing aside the critics. "I phoned a few ministers though." Sharon didn't phone his Foreign Minister, Shimon Peres, until the operation was under way. Bypassing the elder statesman left Sharon diplomatically exposed and unable to fend off the anger of U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, who warned of the "risk of broader conflict" in the Middle East...
...Matt Rees: Not a peep. In the cabinet vote on hitting the Syrian radar stations, two members voted against - Shimon Peres and Ephraim Sneh, both of the Labor party. But neither was complaining about the principle of hitting the Syrians. They were concerned about the timing of the air strike, because it occurred during the visit to Israel of Jordan's foreign minister - the first Arab minister to visit here since the intifada began. And Peres and Sneh though this might not be the best moment to drop bombs on the Syrians. Even then, a number of other Labor party...
...political and military calculations in Lebanon are quite different from those in the West Bank and Gaza, and even Sharon's own foreign minister, Shimon Peres, is reported to have balked at the timing of the raid. (Peres has been holding talks in Israel with Jordan's foreign minister, who condemned the air strike as an "unjustified escalation.") Syria remains militarily the most powerful of Israel's neighbors, and its domestic political situation increases the danger of the latest Israeli action provoking further escalation. President Bashar Assad has not been tested since taking over the reins from his late father...