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70 articles tagged "Israeli Politic"
DEBKAfile
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March 3, 2004, 4:21 PM (GMT+02:00)
It looks like the Israeli media are going to have Ariel Sharon to kick around a bit longer. Justice Dalia Dorner, chairman of the Central Elections Committee, ruled on Wednesday, March 3, the day she retired from the bench, that the next general election should take place on schedule in ...
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February 24, 2004, 3:09 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Labor leader Shimon Peres undertook the February 23 Washington trip when he met Sharon Thursday night, February 19. Three US officials, Stephen Hadley, William Burns and Elliot Abrams, had just been briefed by Sharon in Jerusalem on his evacuation proposals and were to report to President George W. Bush ...
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January 12, 2004, 5:19 PM (GMT+02:00)
"Mr Ariel Sharon's government is not only a master at spin doctoring but also, on levels not seen before in Israel, uses leaks to the media as a main instrument of government," a senior official in Jerusalem told debkafile. "Every policy move has a leaking process that is ...
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December 13, 2003, 8:16 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's political sources state positively that Sharon does not - and never did have - a detailed plan for unilateral action. His deputy, Industry Minister Ehud Olmert, went out on a limb when he told an interviewer a week ago that Israel must now face up to unilateral ...
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December 2, 2003, 1:19 AM (GMT+02:00)
The glitzy ceremony in a Geneva auditorium on December 1 did very little to promote Israeli-Palestinian peace - it was more a Palestinian hate Israel platform - but a great deal to place Yossi Bailin, the Israeli co-author of the unofficial peace accords, on the road to realizing his political ...
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December 1, 2003, 12:19 PM (GMT+02:00)
The unauthorized Geneva Accords launch ceremony, celebrated by a flock of unofficial and private individuals at the Swiss lakeside city on Monday, December 1, have netted handsome profits for Yasser Arafat. He has made the United States, Egypt, Israel and his own Palestinians pay through the nose for letting Fatah ...
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November 8, 2003, 1:28 PM (GMT+02:00)
In between chasing terrorists, Israeli police have their hands full investigating interlocking allegations of sleaze and scandal in high places. Tales of financial corruption are tossed to and fro freely by Israel's top political players - with or without foundation. Many fizzle out before they come to court or on ...
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October 28, 2003, 12:35 PM (GMT+02:00)
No punches were pulled this time. The Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon was at his most abrasive on Tuesday, October 28, when assailed with moral lectures from a group of 170 visiting European parliamentarians from 24 countries. Asked by Irish parliamentarian David Norris how Israel could talk about "executing (sic) ...
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October 14, 2003, 12:04 AM (GMT+02:00)
The latest flurry of diplomatic, political and military activity surrounding the Palestinian question is the product of the sharp decline in Yasser Arafat's health. A tense waiting game is now in progress, one surface symptom of which is Ahmed Qureia's hesitant hand on the reins of government. Monday, October 13, ...
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September 25, 2003, 2:50 PM (GMT+02:00)
Far from being a spontaneous, knee jerk action by a genuine anti-war pacifist group, the letter signed by 27 Israeli air force pilots announcing their refusal to fly missions over Palestinian territory was meticulously planned under political guidance. It was timed to explode at the most effective moment - amid ...
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September 20, 2003, 5:12 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israel's two top officials, prime minister Ariel Sharon and finance minister Binyamin Netanyahu (a former and would-be premier himself), offered perfect examples of the buck-passing mode of government this week. Friday, September 20, the normally authoritarian Sharon dumped the hot potato of the security fence in the laps of his ...
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September 2, 2003, 10:15 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israel's Labor government and police chiefs who held office at the time are criticized in the harshest terms by state inquiry commission whose final report was published Monday, September 1, for gravely mishandling the Israeli Arab riots that swept northern Israel in October 2000 in which 13 Arabs - 12 ...
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June 29, 2003, 11:26 PM (GMT+02:00)
What did the US President's national security adviser Condoleezza Rice really come to the Middle East for? To get the Abu Mazen-Dahlan team started on the war against Palestinian terror? Not a chance. They presented her with a list of demands a mile long when she met the duo in ...
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May 26, 2003, 7:52 PM (GMT+02:00)
The forty-member Likud parliamentary party hurled bitter complaints against prime minister Ariel Sharon Monday, May 26, for failing to consult the party before he presented the Middle East road map to the cabinet for endorsement on Sunday, May 25. It was carried by a narrow majority of 12 to 7 ...
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February 3, 2003, 4:22 PM (GMT+02:00)
A bizarre feature of the Israeli general election held on January 28 was - and still is - the almost obsessive media preoccupation with the losers, chiefly Labor and left-wing Meretz, and virtually no objective studies of the winner. No one asks how Ariel Sharon's Likud managed to pull off ...
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January 29, 2003, 3:23 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Israeli electorate greeted the January 28 general election apathetically, only 68.5 percent bothering to vote for the 120 men and women who will sit in the 16th Knesset. Ariel Sharon's Likud was generally tipped as the big winner. Partial results of 36-38 seats went beyond this expectation. Nonetheless there ...
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January 27, 2003, 2:48 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli politicians complain that the Israeli voter is an enigma; it is hard to know what makes him or her tick. Person-in-the-street responses to media interviews and pollsters are often irrational or downright lies. That may be how 4.8 million eligible voters get back at their politicians, knowing there is ...
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January 8, 2003, 3:09 PM (GMT+02:00)
Despite headlines to the contrary - and falling opinion ratings, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon may not have too much cause for concern over this week's revelations that a long-time friend, South African textile tycoon Cyril Kern, made a low-interest loan to son Gilad Sharon to pay back illegal foreign contributions ...
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December 18, 2002, 5:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israel's election campaign has got off to a murky start. Instead of a national debate on such core issues as Palestinian suicide terror - and how to stop it, peace terms, threats from Iraq, Hizballah and al Qaeda, the recession-wracked economy and acute social afflictions, Israel's news media are engulfed ...
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December 10, 2002, 2:02 PM (GMT+02:00)
A distinct tilt from left to left-of-center characterized the parliamentary list Israel's opposition Labor party picked Monday, December 9, to fight the January 28 general election. Labor, under its new leader Amram Mitzna - and a partially revamped top rank - thus signaled its readiness to take on the Israeli ...
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