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Yassir Arafat then arrests and imprisons a number of suspects belonging to Hamas. Shimon Peres announces that peace negotiations will continue. For the week immediately after the attack, some Israelis feel uncomfortable riding the buses in Israel; people feel unsafe in their own country...
...weeks ago. Today, 55 percent are for the agreement and 45 against. That this is still a majority when emotions are running high a day after the attack seems to show that Israelis, at least for now, remain committed to the process." For an increasingly embattled Prime Minister Shimon Peres, the task will be to keep that support in the face of electoral challenges from hard-liner Benjamin Netanyahu. The Likud Party leader, who opposes the transfer of land to the Palestinians, is gaining on Peres in the polls as Israel approaches elections scheduled for May 29. "The conventional wisdom...
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL: Israelis will go to the polls 5 months early Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres announced on Sunday, telling voters it was time to "renew his mandate". Believing that the Israelis and their Arab neighbors are ready to live in peace, Peres would consider reelection a confirmation of his peacemaking policy. The rescheduling of the October elections for the end of May has caused controversy in Israel. Peres' opponents accuse him of self interest, trying to turn the wave of support for the peace process which followed Rabin's death into an electoral victory. Peres is conscious...
JERUSALEM: The war of words between Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres and opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu heated up, as Peres accused the Likud leader of sending secret messages to Syrian President Hafez Assad. The messages, Peres told the Knesset yesterday, say Israel will be ready to trade land for peace if Likud wins the parliamentary elections later this year. Netanyahu denied the charges, calling them "a big bluff." Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer reports: "This accusation dates back to Rabin, who also accused Netanyahu of sending such messages. And for two prime ministers to make that accusation does carry with...
...YEAR WHEN YASSER ARAFAT, SHIMON Peres and Yitzhak Rabin worked toward peace--and one of them gave his life--when Slobodan Milosevic, Franjo Tudjman and Alija Izetbegovic negotiated the end of Bosnia's lengthy and bloody war, when statesmen who represented the fall of the Iron Curtain are losing their power to a communist comeback, when Helmut Kohl is winning an economic bet in the east of Germany, and President Clinton and his Secretary of State Warren Christopher are defining a new world order, your choice of House Speaker Gingrich as Man of the Year shows how provincial TIME...