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Israelis keep a close eye on U.S. elections
Dina Kraft
January 18, 2008
With a mix of concern for their future and amusement at the marching bands and baby-kissing style of U.S. electoral politics, Israelis are tuning in to see who might be the next U.S. president.
Condi vs. Holbrooke on Foreign Policy
Matthew E. Berger
October 28, 2004
Just days before the U.S. elections, the presidential candidates are sending the same broad messages about their approaches to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the greater Middle East, but they differ sharply on the details.
‘Dreamers’ Still Hold Hope for Peace
Gil Sedan
December 19, 2002
Sometimes, they say, hope shines brightest in the darkest hours.
Mistrust in the Mideast
Leslie Susser
August 15, 2002
The wheels are spinning beneath the battered chassis of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, but the brakes are being applied by that perennial opponent of Mideast progress: mistrust.
Assessing Netanyahu’s Past Policies
Michael S. Arnold
December 14, 2000
It\’s still unclear whether former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be able to run in the upcoming election, but analysts already are wondering how a second Netanyahu administration might differ from the first.
New Urgency for Peacemaking
Matthew E. Berger
December 7, 2000
For the players in the Middle East peace process, it may seem like the two-minute warning.
Enter the New Prime Minister: Ehud Barak
Eric Silver
May 27, 1999
Two decades ago, after hearing the then-Col. Ehud Barak deliver a eulogy for a fallen comrade, popular Israeli poet Haim Guri predicted: \”One day, this man will be prime minister.\” On May 17, Israel\’s voters proved him right. Barak was elected by a landslide, his 56 percent to 44 percent for the right-wing incumbent, Binyamin Netanyahu — the younger brother of the man Barak eulogized in 1976, Yonatan Netanyahu, who was killed rescuing a planeload of hijacked passengers at Entebbe airport.
‘I Am a Coalition of One’
Larry Derfner
May 21, 1998
Regarding the domestic political pressures thatBinyamin Netanyahu faces in his decision-making on the peace process,the prime minister himself probably summed it up best in the \”Israelat 50\” interview he gave to Newsweek: \”I am a coalition ofone.\”
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