[Yasser Arafat] is not just a husband or a father, |
a decisively negative impact. |
a very cynical and willful manipulation of an extremely volatile situation. |
Atmosphere of violence, instability ... |
Barak is going to the other extreme, he is giving the settlers too much influence, too much power. |
Beyond the emotionalism and the obvious sense of relief on all sides, I think that there is a recognition that reality may intrude, that perhaps the steps ahead and the days ahead are going to be much more difficult than one expects. |
But instead of taking action, he cooked up a deal: freeze everything, don't throw out the corrupt officials, sit and do nothing, grasp onto the excuse of the elections. |
Control does not come from strong police forces, does not come from oppression and repression, does not come from violating people's rights or giving the security systems undue powers, |
Dennis Ross has to be very careful if he wants to adopt the Israel priorities and the Israel discourse, and really fall prey to this deliberate campaign of fabrications of false accusations that Israel has started, and they continue to use. |
Even if Ross were not coming to visit the region, we have learned from our experience that Netanyahu will come up with all kinds of excuses to weasel out of the obligation in the agreements (on limited Palestinian autonomy), |
has been unable to effect any change in the Israeli attitude. We did not see any effective political will from Dennis Ross ... to hold Israel accountable. |
He was a genuine man of the people, and he was characterized by his high sense of values, his honesty, his integrity, his unwavering commitment to his people and human dimension. |
I don't see Sharon's new party as a centrist party. It's a party that represents a unilateral approach, |
I feel that Sharon is certainly a negative addition. He will sour the atmosphere. He will shift the whole terrain of the discourse to the extreme right. |
I think they will be able to see him because he is head of state. |