Word: withdrawal
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...preconditions for peace appear still on the table. According to the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot, Netanyahu told both President Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in meetings Thursday that "you must make it clear to Assad that he must think of other options -- the option of a total withdrawal from the Golan does not exist from our point of view." It probably won't be that easy. "Netanyahu knows he can't separate the pieces of the puzzle,? reports TIME?s Bill Stewart. ?Syria wages a guerrilla war on Israel through Hizbollah. So, Israel cannot have peace, or safely...
...from the terrorist raids and indiscriminate attacks of these Islamic militias. The "low-scale" war in southern Lebanon is not a war in which Israel wishes to be engaged. Israel has no territorial claims on Lebanon and, if Israel's own security could be guaranteed, would be happy to withdraw from the security zone. Lebanon has been a nightmarish quagmire for the Israeli military...
...country of Israel's size, that is an alarming number," says TIME's Bill Stewart. "This is certain to add fuel to the debate whether such areas of occupation are truly necessary to the defense of Israel." This week, Israel's Public Security Minister proposed that Israel unilaterally withdraw from the zone, saying Israeli soldiers were unnecessarily a target for Lebanese guerrillas. While Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai rejected the idea, Stewart thinks that could change. "Israel is a nation whose identity rests largely on its security. But the crash occurred within Israel's borders, without any involvement from Lebanon...
...even that promise is fast becoming worthless; the lev currency falls hourly, and wages are now worth half what they were only a month ago. Standing in a long line outside the State Savings Bank, a tearful Anastasia Yaneva, 70, whose pension is now worth $4, was desperate to withdraw her savings and exchange it for foreign currency. "People are in a very aggressive mood," she said. "I'm afraid civil war may burst...
...even that promise is fast becoming worthless; the lev currency falls hourly, and wages are now worth half what they were only a month ago. Standing in a long line outside the State Savings Bank, a tearful Anastasia Yaneva, 70, whose pension is now worth $4, was desperate to withdraw her savings and exchange it for foreign currency. "People are in a very aggressive mood," she said. "I'm afraid civil war may burst...