Ofer Shelah
By Ofer Shelah
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News Sharon Warned of Right-Wing Threat
TEL AVIV — Less than a decade after the murder of Yitzhak Rabin, political assassination has moved once again to the center of Israel’s public debate, with intelligence officials warning of an “imminent threat” as right-wing rabbis openly debate how violently to resist the evacuation of settlements. “I have no doubt that some people have…
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News Terrorists’ Rocket Changes Strategy Of Israeli Pullout
TEL AVIV — Prime Minister Sharon was clear and adamant. “We will make sure,” he told his audience, “that this will not happen again — not before the withdrawal from Gaza and not after.” “This” was a Qassam rocket attack Monday on the Negev town of Sderot, two miles from the Gaza border. A day…
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News As Sharon’s Plan Advances, Officials Reconsider Arafat
TEL AVIV — For months, the Israeli public and the political system waited anxiously for the announcement of Attorney General Menachem Mazouz on whether he was going to press bribery charges against Prime Minister Sharon. Sharon’s security plans, the composition of his coalition and his own political future hung in the balance. When Mazouz finally…
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News Sharon Passes Plan, but Pays Political Price
TEL AVIV — After weeks of struggle, Prime Minister Sharon finally and decisively launched his government this week toward his goal of disengaging from Gaza and parts of the West Bank. After considering the price paid and still to be paid — Sharon’s coalition in tatters, his Knesset majority gone, parties in turmoil, the plan…
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News Dramatic Reversals Bring New Support for Gaza Plan
TEL AVIV — Israel’s military intelligence chief warned the Cabinet this week that America’s mounting troubles in Iraq might prompt it to seek broader international backing and pay for it with the “Israeli coin” of forced concessions that Israel can ill afford. The intelligence chief, Major General Aharon Ze’evi-Farkash, told the Cabinet that Israel could…
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News Under Attack for Gaza Foray, Sharon Dodges a Legal Bullet
TEL AVIV — Ariel Sharon was seen smiling broadly Tuesday for the first time in months, and few doubted the reason: the unconfirmed report, broadcast the day before on Israel Television, that Attorney General Menachem Mazuz had decided not to indict the prime minister on bribery charges in the so-called Greek Island affair. It was…
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News Outcry Over Gaza Killings Ups Pressure on Israel To Pull Out
TEL AVIV — Prior to Wednesday’s strike against Palestinian demonstrators, senior Israeli military officers were expressing confidence that they would have the freedom to finish their mission in Gaza without intervention from Washington, D.C. As pressure and outrage mounted from European and Arab governments, American officials and even from Israeli opposition leaders, that confidence appeared…
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Culture Trophy Killing In Gaza Turns Public Opinion To Withdrawal
TEL AVIV — As Israeli soldiers battled through Gaza this week to retrieve the mutilated remains of six fallen comrades, politicians and field commanders quietly were saying the fighting would prove to be a turning point. As the killing continued for a third day, it was now just a matter of time before Israel was…
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