The conventional explanation for Israel\’s more controversial measures, including, in particular, the security fence under construction and the new marriage law passed by the Knesset, is that these are responses to the ongoing conflict.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his Palestinian Authority counterpart, Mahmoud Abbas, each will seek to persuade the American leader to lean on the other side to move faster — and Bush will be ready to lean on both, Israeli analysts believe.
As Israel and the Palestinians begin a long-awaited truce, both sides are holding their breath — and wondering what the United States will do next to advance the \”road map\” peace plan.
With a new strategic balance in the Middle East and pressure building to implement a U.S.-backed peace plan, next week\’s meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and President Bush could be their most important to date.
It is astonishing that in America, many Jews are not heartened by President Bush\’s "road map" toward Middle East peace, officially made public last week.
What were the Palestinians thinking when they revolted against Israel two years ago?
At times of crisis, Israelis reach for a general. Public anxiety brought Moshe Dayan to the Defense Ministry on the eve of the 1967 Six-Day War, Yitzhak Rabin to the premiership after the traumatic near-defeat in the 1973 Yom Kippur War and the aging Ariel Sharon to power in the midst of the intifada in 2001.
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