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...restrictions tightened further, with most West Bank residents prevented from leaving their towns. In a poll in the Yediot Ahronot daily, the hawkish Sharon had the backing of 56 percent of the voters, compared to 38 percent for Barak. A survey...
...or a gambler to send the army in at this time and place," wrote Alex Fishman in a front-page commentary in the Yediot Ahronot daily. Brig. Gen. Gershon Yitzhak, commander of troops in the West Bank, said the army had to deliver a message...
...reconvenes in late October. "Barak is under a lot of pressure," said Shimon Shiffer, a political commentator for the Yediot Ahronot daily. "Yesterday, he blinked first." Israeli Justice Minister Yossi Beilin said the confusion was due to an...
...shortsighted. "I asked him (Sharon), 'Suppose Arafat disappears, what will happen then?"' Peres told the Yediot Ahronot daily in an interview published Friday. "If we chase Arafat out of here, we will get into problems with the Arab...
...we can look ahead with optimism even though it is clear that Arafat is not a friend of Israel," Sharon told the Yediot Ahronot daily. Palestinian officials dismissed Sharon's claims. Sharon's policies are a recipe "for a continuous confrontation...
...conflict with the Palestinians has entered a new stage. "As far as I'm concerned, the era of Arafat is over," the Yediot Ahronot daily quoted Sharon as saying. The Maariv daily said Sharon gave Arafat a week to crack down on militants. "If not...
...had over the past two weeks was a lull, a very temporary one," wrote military commentator Alex Fischman in the Yediot Ahronot daily. "Operation Defensive Shield made suicide bombers multiply like mushrooms after the rain." Army commanders...
...said Thursday. Sharon proposed that the new government be established even against the Palestinians' wishes, the Yediot Ahronot daily reported Thursday. "The free world must force this government on the Palestinians," the daily quoted him as...
...killed. Among the dead were 13 soldiers in their late teens and early 20s. "Forever 20," read the headline in the Yediot Ahronot daily Thursday, alongside the pictures of the victims. Islamic Jihad members said the bomber, 18-year-old Hamza...