Word: yossi
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...Israeli military muzzled media coverage of the war. Most correspondents were barred from entering Gaza, and viewers of Israeli TV news were, for the most part, shown only the aerial ballet of fighter planes streaking through pillars of smoke rising from the bombs they had dropped. Yossi Sarid, a Ha'aretz columnist and former Meretz politician, says, "People only saw the sterile version of the war. I think they'll be shocked when they see the images coming out of Gaza once the reporters are allowed inside...
...meetings, "But there's only one thing worse than that, which is Iran going nuclear." Those outside the Israeli government express even greater urgency. "I'm worried that by November it's going to be too late," to stop Iran from gaining the ability to produce nuclear weapons, said Yossi Kuperwasser, the former senior intelligence officer for the Central Command of the Israeli Defense. On military action against nuclear sites in Iran, he said, "Just do it. For Christ's sake, do it and solve our problem...
Many right-wing Israelis see Iran as posing an existential threat to the Jewish state, and they embrace McCain's hawkish "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran" stance. But as Yossi Beilin, a leftwing politician, told reporters: "A real friend [of Israel] is someone who will make an effort to bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The question is if McCain is that...
...Japan, leaders would have committed hari-kari in such circumstances," said Yossi Offer, a volunteer with the Movement for Quality Government in Israel, an civil society group supporting the protest in Tel Aviv. "Our leaders our putting their interests before the public interest...
...Attorney General Menachem Mazuz plans to conduct a hearing in the next few days before deciding on whether to proceed with the indictment. But legislators and women's groups on Tuesday called for the president to resign; otherwise, they say they will impeach him. Yossi Beilin, leader of the leftist Meretz Party, said: "The damage that has been done to this institution over the last few months is so great that only his immediate resignation can assist the institution's immediate recovery." Israel's presidency is a symbolic rather than an executive position, but it's precisely because the president...