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Qurei's caution may also have strategic motivations. Former Israeli peace negotiator Yossi Beilin recalls a conversation with Qurei earlier this year. "Imagine we were to walk out of this room and announce to the Palestinian people that we had concluded an agreement but that there would be concessions on the Palestinian side," Qurei told Beilin. "The people would stone us. But if Arafat were to go out and say the same thing, people would applaud him." For now, however, Arafat seems too enthralled with the plaudits he's getting for obstinacy to even contemplate compromise. --With reporting by Jamil...
...diplomatic route to pressure Israel into withdrawing from the West Bank and Gaza remains a tough sell even to many Palestinians willing to jettison Arafat. And while his longtime efforts as a peacemaker - he famously co-authored a plan for sharing Jerusalem with former Israeli justice minister Yossi Beilin - have earned Abu Mazen considerable respect in foreign capitals, he has no mass support base of his own among Palestinians. The latest opinion survey published by a respected Palestinian polling organization showed that while some 60 percent of Palestinians supported the move to tap Abu Mazen as prime minister, only...
...speakers during the seminar, journalist and author Yossi Klein Halevi, shared with us a few words of advice for young, aspiring journalists. “Don’t buy into conventional wisdom,” Halevi said. “Be above the left and the right, and try to understand what’s going on outside the ideological boxes...
...newspapers," he muttered. When there's breathing space between the bombings, Mitzna isn't so reserved. During an often nasty primary campaign, he cast himself as a provincial outsider who promised to "clean out the bullshit culture" of the Labor Party. He wants to bring back people like Yossi Beilin, an architect of the Oslo peace process who withdrew during Ben-Eliezer's reign. He welcomed warm remarks about his election from Arafat, who's utterly demonized by most Israelis now. Though he's married to a Bible teacher, he risked alienating religious voters by admitting that he doesn...
...violence. Hamas declared that radical Islamic and secular factions had agreed to coordinate efforts. Another extremist group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, announced that "every Israeli--inside and outside Israel--is a target." Even some Israelis thought Sharon's Ramallah venture would only worsen matters. Said Yossi Beilin, a member of Israel's center-left Labor party, which is part of Sharon's coalition: "Retaliation will not stop suicide bombings. It will increase them...