NYP98102507 -25 OCTOBER 1998 - NEW YORK, NEW YORK, USA: Former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev (left) exchange greetings prior to the October 25th Israel Bonds dinner in honor of Gorbachev who passed policies which allowed Soviet Jews to immigrate from Russia to Israel. The event was held at the Hilton Hotel in New York City. ep/wy/Ezio Petersen UPI
Yitzhak Shamir is the subject or is mentioned in the following stories:
A Hard-Liner's Call for Peace
In a farewell interview he gave to the Yediot Ahronot newspaper on the eve of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert dropped a bombshell. "What Im telling you now," he said to his interviewers, "no Israeli leader ever said before me: We have to pull out from almost all the territories [in the West Bank], including in East Jerusalem, including in the Golan Heights."
Bassam Abu Sharif: Memo to President Bush
To the attention of President Bush:
EDITORIAL: Condi's Mideast humiliation
How far away the smiling photo-opportunities of the Annapolis peace conference now seem. Less than half a year after a bouncy Condoleezza Rice played princess of peace with all the exuberant enthusiasm of her college cheerleader days, the U.S. secretary of state has just returned home after being humiliated by an Israeli prime minister as no visiting American statesman ever has been before.
OP-ED: Daoud Kuttab
From Madrid to Annapolis - peace conferences are not enough:
Viewpoint: A one-sided war
Thats it. Tomorrow the World Cup games come to an end.
Viewpoint: The trap
When you see a person walking into a trap, you shout: "Look out!" But when you see a person walking into a trap knowingly, with open eyes, what are you supposed to do?
Viewpoint: The curse of the gods
This week I was strolling through the streets of Athens, at the foot of the Acropolis, when my eye was caught by a sign bearing one single word in Greek letters: Sisyphus. It was the name of a taverna.
Viewpoint: Arafat ignored as the world honors Rabin
In my last column, I showed why Remembrance Day is now an anachronism. Continuing to focus on the "good" world wars as a cultural and geopolitical reference point perpetuates a false good/evil dichotomy at a time when the victors and victims of Wor
Viewpoint: The bang and the whimper
"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: / A time to plant and a time to pluck up that which is planted; / A time to break down and a time to build up..." The book of Ecclesiastes has no truer follower than A
Opinion: In search of an Arab 'Gandhi'
For the past few weeks Los Angles-based Palestinian director Hanna Elias has been very busy in Ramallah. He has been casting, auditioning and rehearsing with actors who will take part in an important movie.
