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...Plan” giving the Palenstinians “90 percent of the West Bank.” Obscured are the actual terms of the plan “inexplicably rejected.” A more accurate picture comes from Barak’s chief negotiator at Camp David, Shlomo Ben-Ami. Just before he joined the government he noted that “in practice, the Oslo agreements were founded on a peace resulting in “almost total dependence on Israel,” creating “an extended colonial situation” that was anticipated...
...Shlomo Pinsky is an extremely pious, temperate, Orthodox Jew whose only worldly desire is to win the lottery. Every day he prays to God for help. After many years of prayer but no lottery payoff, Shlomo becomes disillusioned. He asks, “God, why have you forsaken me? I have always followed your laws, I’ve always been a pious man, but you haven’t helped me with the only thing that I’ve asked...
Just then a cloud forms overhead and a deep, rumbling voice booms out: “Shlomo, make it a little easier for me. At least buy a ticket...
...matter how great an achiever you might be, chances are that you have a bit of Shlomo Pinsky in you. How many times have you conceived of an extremely unlikely dream—so daunting that you entertained but never pursued it—and then, when the dream didn’t come to fruition, felt your inaction to have been vindicated...
...press for diplomatic solutions even as the Israeli leadership is bent on revenge, and he has maintained a safe distance from Sharon’s right-wing leadership despite serving in the coalition government. The Middle East peace process would also probably do better under former foreign minister Shlomo Ben-Ami, widely perceived as the front-runner for the Labor Party leadership. Ben-Ami enjoys the advantages of a Moroccan birth and an Oxford education and is seen as a more intelligent version of former Prime Minister Ehud Barak. He is by no means progressive, nor even as conciliatory...