&#39;Israel is not acting in a void&#39;
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&quot;[Five] months had gone by since the last suicide bombing. Even Israelis, perhaps the most security-conscious people in the world, had begun to believe they had achieved improved protection from Palestinian terrorists.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert insisted on Monday that his coalition government was not at risk of unraveling over a U.S.-sponsored conference on Palestinian statehood.
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Next year could bring a &quot;historic breakthrough&quot; in Israel&#39;s relations with the Palestinians, a buoyant Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel said today, insisting
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The nature of Israeli occupation will not change overnight. The savagery that the Sharon government adopts in dealing with the Palestinians will not change.
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The report was less scathing about Prime Minister Ehud Olmert than expected, and he is likely to keep his post.
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German President Horst Koehler said on Tuesday that his country's special relationship with Israel, rooted in responsibility for the Holocaust, could not be eroded by the passage of time.
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Israel held firm Thursday to its policy of not admitting it possesses nuclear weapons, in the face of an acknowledgment from the incoming U.S. Defense Secretary that Israel has the bomb.
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JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, insisting that Israel has no wish to rule over the Palestinians, declared yesterday that 2005 would be &quot;the year of a great historic opportunity&quot; in the Middle East.
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Israeli premier Ehud Olmert says he is suffering from prostate cancer, but this will not force him from office.
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HERZLIYA, ISRAEL - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Thursday Israel should not miss the chance to reach a &quot;breakthrough&quot; in its relations with the Palestinians in 2005.
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Israel&#39;s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s recent decisions rather than advancing the peace process will probably contribute to stall it even further.
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&quot;While Jews are not yet a minority and the Palestinian Arabs a majority, the demographic clock is ticking and within 10-20 years this will indeed be the situation.
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Syria denied yesterday that it was forgoing Israel&#39;s commitment to withdraw from the Golan as a basis for negotiations. The commitment was made by former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.
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Israel's army chief said Wednesday his nation's troops were unlikely to withdraw from Lebanon by the weekend, as he initially predicted, because final details remained to be worked out with the U.N. ...
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Media & professional: Israel circumvents potential damage of academic boycott by allowing scientists to join in EU research.
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JERUSALEM -- Israel will not limit the number of Muslim worshipers at a hotly disputed Jerusalem site during the holy month of Ramadan, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon decided yesterday, backing away from a threat to restrict access.
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We must be clear that it is the Army, and not a modern state, to which we are talking. Our media hardly ever criticises foreign policy.