Tag Archives: Ariel Sharon

Israel’s Demographic Timebomb

Guardian- 14/01/2004 Israeli right-of-centre politics is today turned in on itself. The reason for this derives from the prominence in recent weeks given to proposals for unilateral disengagement by Israel from the Gaza Strip and the greater part of the … Continue reading

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Welcome to the New Israeli Politics

The Guardian- 29/03/2006 You will need to forget a large amount of what you thought you knew about Israel. The clash between Gush Emunim and Peace Now, between Labour and Likud, between the Whole Land of Israel and the New … Continue reading

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The biggest Shoes to Fill

The Guardian- 06/01/2006 If the massive cerebral hemorrhage suffered by Ariel Sharon marks the end of this remarkable man’s political career then Israeli public life is about to lose the figure who above all others reshaped Israeli politics and diplomacy … Continue reading

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A Disengagement of Disenchantment

Haaretz-07/01/2005 The political direction of which Ariel Sharon’s disengagement plan forms a part is the most significant development in Israeli policy making since 1967. It is an attempt to finally free the Israeli political discussion from the squabble between rival … Continue reading

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Missed Opportunities

The Forward- 07/05/2004 There is a growing corpus of Israeli responses to the collapse of the peace process of the 1990s, and the eclipse of the expectations of imminent historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians that it brought in its … Continue reading

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