Chemi Shalev
By Chemi Shalev
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News New Zealand Ups Ante in Spy Affair
SYDNEY — The left-leaning government of New Zealand has imposed a series of sanctions on Israel in the wake of the bungled Mossad-passports affair, and the diplomatic rupture is likely to be “long lasting” unless Israel “explains, apologizes and reassures” the Wellington government, said the island nation’s foreign minister. “We are the victims of an…
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News Terror Plots Strike Fear in Community Down Under
SYDNEY, Australia — The Australian Jewish community is a “prime target” of Al Qaeda and other Islamic terrorist groups operating in Southeast Asia, according to intelligence analysts and Jewish officials in Australia. An attack on the Jewish community here would serve a dual purpose for the terrorists, the experts say, striking at an Israeli/Jewish target…
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News Scandal Turns Sabras and Kiwis Into a Prickly Pair
SYDNEY, Australia — A job title like “Treasurer of the Jewish Agency for Israel” may sound prestigious in New York, but in remote New Zealand it seems to conjure up a shadier image — moneyman, perhaps for a covert organization. Small wonder, then, that Shai Hermesh, whose official Israeli passport carries just that title, recently…
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News Concocted Fantasies and Costly Blunders
The Eve of Destruction: The Untold Story of the Yom Kippur War By Howard Blum HarperCollins, 350 pages, $25.95. * * *| The Yom Kippur War: The Epic Encounter That Transformed the Middle East By Abraham Rabinovich Schocken Books, 560 pages, $27.50. * * *| Uri Dan: Yom Kippur War Photographs Farkash Gallery, Jaffa *…
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News Sharon Aide: U.S. ‘Indifferent’ To Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
JERUSALEM — The Bush administration, while focused intensely on its “grand plan” for remaking the Middle East, is “indifferent to the situation” between Israel and the Palestinians and is unlikely to re-engage until after the November elections, according to Israel’s defense minister, Shaul Mofaz. Speaking to the Forward in an exclusive interview this week, Mofaz…
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News Shimon Peres: Time Is Running Out for Likud Party
JERUSALEM — Shimon Peres is once again aiming to become the next Israeli prime minister. He won’t admit it, perhaps even to himself, but there is no doubt that Peres can already envision the evolving circumstances that might catapult him once again, against all odds and expectations, to the nation’s top office. Peres would have…
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News Showdown Looms for Sharon in Party Fight
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Sharon traded verbal blows this week with the apparatus of his ruling Likud party, with disputes ranging from pure ideology to naked power in the background. The stage has now been set for a dramatic showdown next month that could have a profound effect on both. The party’s top decision-making authority,…
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News Right Wing Gears Up for Clash With Sharon
JERUSALEM — Israel’s right wing is gearing up for a confrontation with the government in the coming days, in the wake of Prime Minister Sharon’s decision this week to start removing so-called illegal Jewish settlement outposts in the West Bank. Sharon announced on Sunday that he had decided to remove four outposts, out of an…
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