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...difference between Sharon and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who tried to negotiate a peace deal with Yasser Arafat, is that Sharon will not tolerate any bombing or shooting while negotiations are under way. The cease-fire that Abbas has arranged with Palestinian militant groups is not good enough because those independent groups may begin shooting at any time. Perhaps, as an incentive for Abbas to bring the militants under his control, Sharon could propose shortening the implementation time of a peace agreement, if one can be reached. Sam Einhorn Montreal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 6/13/2005 | See Source »

...scoops for TIME, some of which involved the shadowy machinations of his friends, are innumerable?and at one point he was jailed for his foreknowledge of plots. He knew almost all the major players of the Middle East at the time, from King Feisal of Saudi Arabia to Yasser Arafat to a young Iraqi named Saddam Hussein. Aburish was part of the Palestinian diaspora after the creation of Israel in 1948, and in exile his family took up the tourist trade in Beirut. There Mohammed Khalil Aburish (everyone called him by the more informal name Abu Said) pampered clients, including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 5/30/2005 | See Source »

...Vestra, engaging in sex acts with several men. Timothy's supporters say the photos were doctored, and blame the Eirinaios camp. Israel's Cabinet refused for almost three years to ratify the election because of accusations that Eirinaios wrote an anti-Semitic letter to the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat; Eirinaios says the letter was a forgery. In March, an Israeli court ruled that Eirinaios was elected with covert aid from a shady Greek intelligence informant arrested in April on charges of drug trafficking. The current uproar began in March when an Israeli newspaper claimed the Patriarchate had leased properties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Unorthodox Deal? | 5/29/2005 | See Source »

...clear that with [Abbas], there's a better chance for progress than with [Yasser] Arafat. But only if he is under strong pressure toward democratic reforms. The disengagement is unilateral, so it means zero pressure for reform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Natan Sharansky | 5/29/2005 | See Source »

...Hebrew)--and TV ads with soft music showed Sharon strolling the fields on his farm and hugging his granddaughter. There were only a few references to the security background that, Adler believed, established Sharon as the best man to face off against the Palestinian leader at the time, Yasser Arafat. Suddenly the "unelectable" hard-line general had turned into a campaigner the Israeli media dubbed Grandpa Sharon. He won easily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Turned Sharon Into a Softie | 5/15/2005 | See Source »

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