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70 articles tagged "Israeli Politic"
DEBKAfile
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December 5, 2002, 1:39 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli prime minister and Likud leader Ariel Sharon delivered his first major campaign speech Wednesday December 4, declaring that after the January 28 general election he will ask his new government to endorse the Bush peace outline and the creation of a Palestinian state with Yasser Arafat as its "symbolic" ...
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November 20, 2002, 1:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
Amram Mitzna, 57, avowed dove and advocate of negotiations with the Palestinians - even amid surging terror - was picked as next Labor leader on November 19 in what looked more like a journey down memory lane than a hard-headed, future-oriented primary election. Labor, once considered Israel's natural ruling party, ...
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November 16, 2002, 11:02 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Palestinian ambush in Hebron that cost the lives of 12 Israelis, most from the security forces - including two senior officers, IDF Col. Dror Weinberg and Border Police Superintendent Samih Suwidan - is bound to have political fallout, occurring as it does two months and one week before Israel's ...
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November 5, 2002, 2:17 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon announced Tuesday, November 5, he had opted for an early election - reluctantly as the lesser evil, rather than bow to "political extortion". Later, a parliamentary committee set January 28, 2003 as voting day.
This decision touched off a whirlwind of political action before Tuesday afternoon. ... 
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November 2, 2002, 8:56 PM (GMT+02:00)
Since Labor quit Israel's ruling coalition government, prime minister Ariel Sharon has been widely expected to re-orient to the right for the sake of new ultra-nationalist partners to shore up his minority government of 55 - or else face an early election.
However, debkafile's political analysts note that Sharon's ... 
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October 30, 2002, 9:41 PM (GMT+02:00)
Ariel Sharon shows no sign of knuckling under to the demand from his resigned defense minister, the Labor leader Binyamin Ben Eliezer, for an early election next March or April. Labor's walkout from the unity government leaves Sharon with a minority government of 55 out of 120 Knesset seats instead ...
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October 20, 2002, 1:53 PM (GMT+02:00)
The stormy controversy that erupted over a Jewish farm set up near Nablus in memory of Gilead Zar, who died in a terror attack on a West Bank road, bares once again the deep seam running down the middle of Ariel Sharon's national unity government. This seam the prime minister ...
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September 9, 2002, 2:56 PM (GMT+02:00)
Ariel Sharon's dozen years in the political wilderness - plus the bitter sniping suffered by his ten predecessors as Israeli prime minister - taught him some basic math: The best way to downsize your parliamentary opposition is to upsize your coalition government. Straight after his landslide election victory in February ...
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February 21, 2002, 12:47 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israel will create buffer zones buttressed by physical barriers to bring about "security separation" between Israel and Palestinian territory. Demarcation work will begin at once. This was the main message prime minister Ariel Sharon delivered in a rare broadcast address to the nation Thursday night, February 21.
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March 7, 2001, 11:14 AM (GMT+02:00)
On the day the late Yitzhak Rabin's daughter was named deputy defense minister, a Jerusalem magistrate issued a 103-page decision that gave weight to some of the wildest conspiracy theories surrounding the late prime minister's assassination on Nov. 4, 1995. Justice Shulamit Dotan partially acceded to a request from Shin ...
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