Chemi Shalev
By Chemi Shalev
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News Attack on Hamas Head Spurs Terror, Threatens Abu Mazen
JERUSALEM — The failed assassination of Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi is likely to weaken the already precarious position of Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas and to herald a new wave of terrorist attacks against Israelis. This was the assessment of most Israeli analysts even before the Hamas-backed suicide bombing in Jerusalem Wednesday and Israel’s…
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News Leaders Gamble on Road Map Amid Tempered Expectations
AQABA, Jordan — In the end, President Bush could not have hoped for more. He got Ariel Sharon and Mahmoud Abbas to say as much as either man could permit himself to say. Sharon gave his strongest-ever endorsement of Palestinian statehood and pledged to start immediately dismantling illegal settlement outposts. Abbas issued his bluntest denunciation…
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News Sharon Battling To Save Plan From Right’s Blows
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Sharon was scrambling this week to head off a civil war within his Likud party after his embrace of the American-sponsored “road map” to Middle East peace left supporters accusing him of giving in to pressure and endangering Israel’s future. Sharon astounded the Israeli political community by securing Cabinet approval for…
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News Terror Attacks Said To Wound Sharon’s Image
JERUSALEM — A new wave of terrorist attacks has plunged Israel back to the bloodiest days of the Palestinian intifada and dashed fledgling hopes for an early resumption of the peace process. The renewed outbreak of violence may also have damaged Prime Minister Sharon’s public stature, after two and a half years of unprecedented popularity….
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News Eye on Jerusalem: A Diplomatic Challenge
Old-timers often express surprising nostalgia for World War II-era Jerusalem, during the British Mandate, when the city was constantly swamped by vacationing foreign troops and exuded an air of vibrancy and cosmopolitanism. Ironically, those were “the good old days,” despite the fact that 60 years later, Jerusalem has become Israel’s largest city by far, the…
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News Settlements Top the Agenda As Bush, Sharon Meet in D.C.
JERUSALEM — The issue of Jewish settlements in the territories is the main obstacle awaiting Prime Minister Sharon when he meets with President Bush at the White House next Tuesday, according to informed sources here. Israel views Sharon’s White House visit, his first since October, as “crucial” to continued progress toward peace with the Palestinians,…
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News Mitzna Resignation Batters Labor, But Raises Unity Coalition Hopes
JERUSALEM — The sudden resignation of Labor Party leader Amram Mitzna, just six months into his tenure, has opened up possibilities for the formation of a new Likud-Labor national unity government that could advance the Middle East peace process. Coming amid a flurry of post-Iraq diplomatic activity, including the introduction of the “road map” to…
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News Some Happy 55th: Pessimism, A Strike and Same-Old Terror
JERUSALEM — On the eve of the country’s 55th Independence Day, most Israelis are in a somber and pessimistic mood, shackled by what they perceive as unbreakable military, political and economic chains. According to the newest polls, the public supports the American-sponsored “road map” to Israeli-Palestinian peace, as well as the recent appointment of Abu…
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