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70 articles tagged "Israeli Politic"
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August 17, 2005, 11:34 PM (GMT+02:00)
The massed divisions of troops and police officers quickly saw that there were too many of them for the task ahead. The uniformed men had braced for violent resistance. Instead they were greeted with prayers, laments, outpourings of bitter outrage and chorused recitations of Psalms.
The soldiers must have asked ... 
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July 3, 2005, 10:49 PM (GMT+02:00)
The deep seams in Ariel Sharon's coalition government cracked further at the cabinet meeting Sunday, July 3, as ministers and factions began striking pre-election campaign poses against their rivals. Netanyahu was clearly throwing down the gauntlet after telling his friends he would beat Sharon in the next Likud primaries for ...
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March 30, 2005, 1:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
The fourteen months since Ariel Sharon unveiled his unilateral disengagement have been for him a personal hurdle race to knock over the political and military opposition to his plan by fair means or foul. In the process, he trampled several values and mores that most Israelis had taken for granted. ...
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March 22, 2005, 5:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
The only way Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon can ward off a final Likud split is to put the evacuations on hold and call an early election before the fissure becomes irreparable. An early election will become automatic if the budget is not passed by March 31. The government will ...
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February 16, 2005, 12:33 PM (GMT+02:00)
The non-extension of Lt.-General Moshe Ayalon's tour of duty as Israeli armed forces chief of staff is unprecedented. The one-year extension has always been automatic for every one of his predecessors, a routine that crossed party divisions and assured the country that the army serves the nation as its supreme ...
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December 22, 2004, 12:26 AM (GMT+02:00)
When is a crime not a crime? May a Holocaust symbol be used to promote any other cause? What is an illegal law? And what is an illegal military order? These questions have been tossed back and forth since the mild-spoken Pinhas Wallerstein, a leading member of the Council of ...
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November 30, 2004, 3:15 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Sharon government's permanent crisis peaked again this week over the insufficiency of parliamentary votes to get the 2005 state budget through its first reading Wednesday, December 1. The deadline for its second reading and final enactment is December 31. The acrobatic wheeling and dealing for a majority has accelerated ...
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October 27, 2004, 12:26 AM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon was that close to losing the crucial Knesset vote Tuesday, October 26, on his plan to uproot Israel's civilian and troop presence from the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank. His comfortable victory of 67 lawmakers to 45 against and 7 abstentions must be credited, ...
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October 24, 2004, 9:46 PM (GMT+02:00)
Even if a Knesset majority favors disengagement, the Likud rebels will fight on. They are preparing steps to topple the Sharon government complete with his disengagement scheme by defeating the 2005 national budget when it comes before parliament in the next week or two. The danger is real. Before the ...
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October 19, 2004, 1:03 AM (GMT+02:00)
Notwithstanding his flat nyet to all comers proposing a national referendum to haul his disengagement plan out of its political impasse, Sharon has decided in his mind to go for it after all as a tool for manipulating the Knesset. This is reported by debkafile's political sources. He ...
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September 11, 2004, 5:00 PM (GMT+02:00)
Although the settlement issue is genuinely incendiary, debkafile has been told by its exclusive political sources that much of the fresh heat is sparked by a different factor: word is going round the ministers and top political circles that a decision has been reached by former finance minister ...
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August 17, 2004, 6:33 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon locked the exits of the cabinet chamber Sunday, August 15, until the ministers approved the of NIS 267.99 bn ($60 bn) state budget for 2005 by a comfortable 17 to 3 majority. This budget will undergo many chops and changes in the legislative process ahead ...
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July 17, 2004, 11:15 PM (GMT+02:00)
Yasser Arafat waited until the Gaza Strip was relegated to the status of a write-off to be dumped by Israel, with the Egyptians and Britain maintaining an interim security presence until the Palestinians were deemed fit to rule a reformed, terror-free administration. Arafat himself was seen as a spent force. ...
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July 12, 2004, 1:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
mg class="picture" src="/dynmedia/pictures/sharon_peres_e_thumb.jpg" align="left" border="0">Neither prime minister Ariel Sharon, 76, nor opposition leader Shimon Peres, 81, stands to lose much by their partnership to rescue the tottering Likud-led minority government from being swept out of office. Alone, neither retains much voter appeal. Together, the two old warhorses are capable ...
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June 16, 2004, 4:09 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israel's political and legal community is in uproar since attorney- general Manny Mazuz announced Tuesday, June 15, he had decided to drop bribes charges against prime minister Ariel Sharon and his son Gilead. Most of the fuss centered on the harsh criticism he leveled against the way the case was ...
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June 6, 2004, 1:32 AM (GMT+02:00)
All the politicians who count for anything are looking actively past the Sharon era and well past the prime minister's office's farcical attempts to sack the two anti-disengagement National Union ministers who didn't want to go. Transport minister Avigdor Lieberman was handed his pink slip in good time Friday, June ...
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May 28, 2004, 8:52 PM (GMT+02:00)
How did the twice-elected Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon get into his present fix? debkafile's political analysts examine the underlying causes leading up to the impasse as Sharon's second term as prime ministers seems to be petering out. 1. The Likud membership's rejection of his unilateral disengagement initiative ...
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May 10, 2004, 12:05 AM (GMT+02:00)
Act 2 begins this week in the drama of Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon's disengagement and Gaza withdrawal plan that never was. This is how it evolved, according to debkafile's exclusive Washington sources: When Sharon went to visit President George W. Bush last month, he admitted that his ...
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May 6, 2004, 12:43 PM (GMT+02:00)
True to the Israeli military doctrine of striking hard and fast, defense minister Shaul Mofaz placed both feet down at the front of the race to succeed a politically weakened Ariel Sharon. The prime minister and Likud leader barely had time to weigh the consequences of his party's stunning rejection ...
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May 3, 2004, 2:21 AM (GMT+02:00)
On Sunday, May 2, Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon lost his party. A majority of the 200,000-strong Likud membership turned their backs on him. Only 40 percent bothered to take part in the party referendum on his unilateral disengagement plan and its concomitant pledge to uproot 7,500 Jews from their ...
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