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93 articles tagged "US-Israel"
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DEBKAfile
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March 2, 2003, 3:42 PM (GMT+02:00)
Ariel Sharon's second government held its first cabinet meeting in Jerusalem Sunday, March 2. This is most probably his last term of office as prime minister. Barring an early election before the 16th Knesset runs full term, he expects to bow out in 2007. Above and beyond the urgent task ...
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August 18, 2002, 6:31 PM (GMT+02:00)
When in the past Israel was beset with extreme economic distress, its finance ministers were to be found in Washington, lobbying hard for help - even in the form of symbolic investment for boosting the country's financial credibility and morale. Yet finance minister Sylvan Shalom has given up transatlantic travel, ...
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August 18, 2002, 6:25 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Bush administration, which only last month sought $200m in special counter-terror aid for Israel, has just suspended its allocation.
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August 3, 2002, 7:19 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon has quietly assembled a new, trusted team to assist in the charting of Israel's Middle East role in the post-Saddam, post-Arafat era. Sharon's planning, a closely guarded secret not shared with his own ministers, is tightly woven into the design for the defeat of global ...
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June 11, 2002, 4:52 PM (GMT+02:00)
Syria was the key issue on the Bush-Sharon agenda. The Palestinian issue figured no higher than third item down because of the broad consensus between the two leaders. The US president signed on to the Israeli prime minister's proposition that Yasser Arafat's administration has a long way to go towards ...
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April 5, 2002, 1:04 PM (GMT+02:00)
At the exact moment that Israel's long-awaited counter-terror operation began to bear fruit and prime minister Ariel Sharon was girding up to deal with the Iranian-Syrian backed Hizballah threat on the northern frontier, US President George W. Bush stood up in the Rose Garden and waved a red light. Thursday, ...
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April 2, 2002, 11:53 AM (GMT+02:00)
The tone of the diplomatic hair-splitting over timelines may be friendly, but, according to debkafile's political circles, it does not detract from the fact that the Sharon-Bush yearlong honeymoon is abruptly coming to a close. If he fails to toe the new Bush line, the prime minister may ...
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June 28, 2001, 12:03 PM (GMT+02:00)
President Bush said Tuesday that the two sides, Israel and the Palestinians, will have to decide when the violence has subsided enough to go back to the conference table. A day later, his secretary of state, Colin Powell, declared that the decision would be up to prime minister Ariel Sharon. ...
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June 27, 2001, 11:11 AM (GMT+02:00)
For Washington, tackling Arafat is only one part of the larger picture. The Bush administration's short-term objective is to keep the Palestinian-Israeli conflict manageable - and therefore inconclusive, so as to be uninflammable in regional terms. Arafat must content himself with just a few shooting incidents a day, both sides ...
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May 3, 2001, 12:16 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile 's Washington sources confirm our previous assessment of US administration reluctance to involve itself directly in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict at this stage, beyond the understandings reached between the White House and Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon last February. The Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres's solo initiatives therefore ...
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January 22, 2001, 11:16 AM (GMT+02:00)
Bill Clinton, with one foot out of the White House, granted last-minute pardons on Saturday, Jan. 20, to a long list of extremely controversial miscreants. But not to Jonathan Pollard. Clinton was forced to take him off the list, notwithstanding the promises he gave four Israeli prime ministers, the late ...
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December 19, 2000, 2:06 PM (GMT+02:00)
President-elect Bush, who has already announced his administration will be fully engaged in the Middle East, has assented to his predecessor dealing with the negotiations in the remaining weeks of his presidency, with the proviso that all agreements are submitted to Bush for prior approval. He also wants both Palestinian ...
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The first of 9,000 incoming US troops have arrived in Israel – not just for the joint Austere Challenge 12 exercise but for a longer stay. They are part of the joint US-Israel deployment ready for a military engagement with Iran and its possible escalation into a regional conflict. A US aircraft carrier will soon dock in Israel for joint missions with the Israeli Air Force. Most of the US arrivals are airmen, missile interceptor teams, marines, seamen, technicians and intelligence officers. |
