Summary
On his occasional visits to his reinforced suite at the American Colony Hotel in East Jerusalem, he has been putting together an economic "rescue package" for the Palestinians. Ahead of that meeting, I was part of a group invited to Jerusalem to talk to some of the most influential players in Israeli politics and security from cabinet moderates such as the deputy prime minister Haim Ramon to the arch-neocon, the man who will become leader again if it all falls apart-Binyamin "Bibi" Netanyahu. In any event, by far the biggest concern in political circles is now Iran, or "the state from which all evil stems", as one minister put it. security officials and politicians say Tehran will have acquired the technology to produce a nuclear weapon by the end of 2009 at the latest.
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Israel: Lulled by the Good Life
It is Friday night in Tel Aviv. I am sitting at a seaside bar, drinking a cocktail and eating seafood. Young men and women are playing beach volleyball nearby; others are rollerblading, cycling or just sauntering around. Israel, at least the secular part of Israel, is enjoying life. A few hours earlier I had been in another world: Jenin, the most northerly town on the West Bank, a place I had been before during the second intifada. ...
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