Chemi Shalev
By Chemi Shalev
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News Jerusalem Buzzes With Talk of Unilateral Moves Ahead of Sharon Speech
JERUSALEM — Israel’s political establishment, from left to right, is waiting nervously for the expected unveiling next week by Prime Minister Sharon of his long-awaited plan for ending Israel’s current standoff with the Palestinians. Sharon is said to be planning to outline a detailed plan in a speech next Thursday at the conclusion of the…
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News Sharon Going on Offensive As Geneva Initiative Gains
JERUSALEM — The scheduled launch ceremony next week of the so-called Geneva Understandings is agitating the Israeli government, creating new tensions in its relations with the Bush administration and increasing pressure on Prime Minister Sharon to come up with a viable peace plan of his own. The growing interest in the Geneva initiative at home…
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News Swallowing Hard, Sharon Mulls A New Palestinian Cease-Fire
JERUSALEM — Faced with growing internal discontent and increasing international criticism of his policies, Prime Minister Sharon is reluctantly moving ahead with efforts to achieve a new Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire and revive the moribund peace process. Sharon is expected to meet within the next few days with the newly appointed Palestinian prime minister, Ahmed Qurei, to…
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News Baby Food Scare Breeds Fear, Suspicion Among Israelis
JERUSALEM — Israelis often suppose that their long history of warfare, capped by three years of bloody intifada, have all but immunized them against life’s more mundane fears and anxieties. But nothing could have prepared them for the sheer terror raised this week by the specter of tainted baby food. That terror swept the Jewish…
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News High-Stakes Drama in Israel Pits Top Cop Against Attorney General
JERUSALEM — It is a showdown worthy of a Hollywood script, where “The Sopranos” meets “Law and Order” deep inside “The West Wing.” It is a confrontation that is shaking Israel’s law-enforcement apparatus to the core and rocking its political establishment. It is depicted on both emotional sides as a fateful battle between good and…
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News Israeli Army Splits With Pols On How to Govern Territories
JERUSALEM — With fears growing that Israeli-Palestinian relations are reaching a dangerous stalemate, a power struggle has erupted within the Israeli security establishment over the conduct of Israel’s war against terrorism. Israel’s military brass is pressing for an easing of some recent restrictions on the Palestinian population, arguing that the restrictions on movement and economic…
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News What Fate for Arafat? Sharon Decides To Trust Grim Reaper
JERUSALEM — The Israeli government apparently has given up plans to assassinate, deport or otherwise harm Yasser Arafat and is now relying on nature to take its course and remove the Palestinian leader from power, via his allegedly deteriorating health. Sources in Prime Minister Sharon’s office told the Forward this week that Israeli intelligence believes…
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News Beilin’s ‘Unofficial’ Peace Plan Raises Hopes, Ire
JERUSALEM — An unofficial but comprehensive peace agreement, hammered out by groups of informal Israeli and Palestinian negotiators, is fueling Israel’s fiercest political debate in years and could ultimately redraw the political map here. Supporters of the so-called Geneva Understandings, which were initialed at a ceremony in Jordan this week, say the 60-page document could…
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