Expressions of love, walks down memory lane, even the rain lashing Washington\’s monuments: The latest meeting between Ehud Olmert and George Bush played out like the end of a movie romance — only the Israeli prime minister says he\’s not going anywhere because there is work to be done, especially when it comes to facing down Iran.
How to turn the disaster of the Hamas\’ capture of Gaza into a political opportunity was the main focus of this week\’s four-way summit in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheik.
What happens next will depend on how skillfully the parties maneuver in trying to advance their often disparate agendas.
Experiencing the classic symptoms of altitude sickness — fatigue and hallucinations — Hall had refused to continue down the mountain and ended up passing out. The two sherpas with him concluded, after poking Hall in the eye and getting no response, that Hall was dead. Suffering from lack of oxygen themselves, they hurried down the mountain.
More than 1,000 pro-Israel activists from across the United States will meet in Los Angeles for the Oct. 30-31 National Summit on Foreign Policy and Politics of AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
The dust is still settling after last week\’s summit at the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheik, but early signs on the ground are highly contradictory.
Last week, just 48 hours after the summit, Palestinian terrorist groups fired more than 50 mortar shells at Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip — yet now Hamas, the largest and most important of the terrorist groups, says it\’s committed to the cease-fire announced at the summit.
As Prime Minister Ehud Barak engages this week in Middle East summitry, there is one issue on which he can afford to make the fewest concessions: Jerusalem.
This weekend\’s Swiss summit between Bill Clinton and Hafez al-Assad is a make-or-break moment in the quest for peace between Syria and Israel. The American president will soon be a lame duck. The septuagenarian Syrian president is sick and eager to hand over the reins to his son, Bashar. And the Israeli prime minister, Ehud Barak, the man in the empty chair in Geneva, is losing control of his coalition and his constituency.
If they don\’t reach an ag
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