Up Close and Too Personal
Marlene Adler Marks
September 17, 1998
Perhaps now the American public will finally break its serious addiction to selecting charisma as the most desirable quality for elected officials.
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Politics
Power, Politics & People
Jewish Journal
August 7, 1998
Last January, when the world first learned of Lewinsky, the presidential sex scandal triggered a sudden mood swing in U.S.-Israel relations.
Netanyahu Suffers Knesset Defeat
Eric Silver
August 7, 1998
Binyamin Netanyahu recently suffered the most wounding parliamentary defeat of his two-year premiership. It left the Likud leader more dependent than ever on the pro-settler right, which has threatened to bring him down if he hands any more of the occupied West Bank to Yasser Arafat.
Mideast
Larry Derfner
May 28, 1998
Just after dawn two years ago today, May 29, 1996, the all-night vote count finally tipped against Shimon Peres and for Binyamin Netanyahu, who would become the new prime minister. In the intervening two years, Peres was succeeded as head of the Labor Party by the slain Yitzhak Rabin\’s protegé, Ehud Barak. After a long stretch of running ahead of Netanyahu in the polls, Barak has now slipped behind.
Politics, Israeli Style
Jewish Journal
May 28, 1998
Some of you may have caught last week\’s New Yorker (May 25) with journalist David Remnick\’s profile of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. If not, I urge you to call the magazine\’s offices in New York and order a back copy, or simply visit your local library.
Power, Politics And People
Jewish Journal
May 28, 1998
along with news of its editor\’s death, the YiddishForward of May 15 carried front-page reports about India\’s nucleartests, the U.S.-Israeli diplomatic crisis, the naming of a specialprosecutor to probe the secretary of labor, and Israel\’s new militarychief of staff.
Power, Politics & People
Jewish Journal
May 21, 1998
Netanyahu came to America an embattled primeminister on May 13. He left four days later a conquering hero, buoyedby a reception in the Jewish community that aides said exceeded theirwildest expectations.
Gore’s Campaign Stop
James David Besser
May 7, 1998
Vice President Al Gore\’s visit to the Middle East may have been the biggest and best event yet in his 2000 presidential campaign, political observers here say.
David Remnick’s Profile of Prime Minister Binyamin
Jewish Journal
May 7, 1998
Some of you may have caught last week\’s New Yorker (May 25) with journalist David Remnick\’s profile of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. If not, I urge you to call the magazine\’s offices in New York and order a back copy, or simply visit your local library.\n\nRemnick offers us a portrait of Bibi as The Outsider.
The Racialization of
Joel Kotkin
May 7, 1998
Last week, President Clinton diverted himself from fending off scandal and defaming his accusers to denounce the Unzinitiative, Proposition 227, which is designed to end the currentsystem of bilingual education. In the process, he may have contributed to the growing, and potentially debilitating, racialization of Los Angeles\’ political scene.
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