Chemi Shalev
By Chemi Shalev
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News Jerusalem Ups Mideast Ante
JERUSALEM — Facing a potential conflagration on its northern border and a storm of domestic criticism over its bombing of a deserted terrorist training camp in Syria, Israel decided this week to escalate its land campaign against Palestinian terrorists in the West Bank. Among its planned measures, senior military sources said, Israel was seeking “the…
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News Rhetoric Escalates Over Pilots’ Rebellion
JERUSALEM — The shocking announcement by 27 Air Force pilots that they would refuse to participate in what they called “illegal and immoral” assassination attempts against Palestinian terrorists is hitting a raw nerve among army generals and reopening the bitter schisms in Israeli politics. While described as an “insignificant minority” — most of whom no…
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News Peres Birthday Bash a Blast From the Oslo Past
JERUSALEM — Celebrating his 80th birthday this week, Shimon Peres enjoyed what was in many ways his finest hour. His two-day birthday party was, by Israeli standards, a feast fit for a caesar. Never before in the history of the country — and probably never again — had so many foreign leaders and dignitaries traveled…
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News Decision To ‘Get Rid’ of Arafat Instead Isolates Israeli Leader
JERUSALEM — In addition to strengthening Yasser Arafat and isolating Israel diplomatically, last week’s in-principle decision by the Israeli security cabinet to “get rid” of the Palestinian leader appears to have damaged Prime Minister Sharon’s already shaky domestic political standing. The decision, announced last week after a pair of suicide bombings that left 15 people…
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News Bombings Rock Israel, Leave Uncertain Future For Arafat’s Authority
JERUSALEM — In the wake of this week’s deadly terrorist attacks, pressure is mounting within Israel’s political and defense establishment for an all-out onslaught against both Hamas and Yasser Arafat, possibly ending the road map process and toppling the Palestinian Authority altogether. The United States and the European Union were working at midweek to restrain…
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News U.S. Presses Abu Mazen Over Terror
JERUSALEM — The Palestinian Authority was under intense pressure this week to clamp down forcefully on terrorists in order to save the Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire from collapse following this week’s horrific bus bombing in Jerusalem. Israeli officials said that Washington had warned the Palestinian prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, that the entire…
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News Jerusalem Ups Pressure To Stop Iran Nuke Program
JERUSALEM — Israel’s summer of calm was on the verge of collapsing into new warfare this week, after a pair of deadly Palestinian terrorist attacks left tempers near the boiling point. The back-to-back suicide bombings, the worst spate of terrorism since the Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire began six weeks ago, left two Israelis dead and several more…
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News Hawks Circle Israeli PM as Scandals Widen
JERUSALEM — Israeli politicians have begun gearing up for a battle of succession as Prime Minister Sharon struggles against a mounting wave of legal investigations and charges of corruption that could potentially drown his political career, perhaps in the coming months. During the last two weeks, hardly a day has gone by without another serious…
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