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Benjamin Netanyahu, Likud leader.-AMMAR AWAD/REUTERS

Right on top

THERE were no shocks or surprises in the results of the elections to the 18th Knesset (parliament). Opinion polls had indicated more or less the outco
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Benjamin Netanyahu, Likud leader.-AMMAR AWAD/REUTERS

Right on top

THERE were no shocks or surprises in the results of the elections to the 18th Knesset (parliament). Opinion polls had indicated more or less the outco
YAEL LOTAN

Terror unlimited

in Tel Aviv
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Waiting for peace

Should Israelis continue to evaluate the relations between Israel and the U.S. in the terms coined and tendered by the Zionist lobby?
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Sixty years of sin

Looking back at the hardships Palestinian Arabs suffered at the hands of the Jewish state as Israel celebrates its 60th anniversary.
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A protest, holding the red-black-green Palestinian flag and braving the Israeli water cannon, at the construction site of Israel's separation barrier in the village of Bilin, near the West Bank town of Ramallah, on April 27. While Israel says the barrier is necessary for its security, Palestinians say it is meant to grab their land.-EMILIO MORENATTI/AP

Two States Solution

The Two States formula is increasingly gaining credence in the Jewish state as the only acceptable solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert during a session in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem on January 17.-SEBASTIAN SCHEINER/AP

Shorn of shields

Military failures and scandals of various hues make the present leadership in Israel the most low-grade of all.
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Lebanese quagmire

The way Israel positions itself in the world political order is not a prescription for peace in the region.
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Interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (left) with President Moshe Katsav at a ceremony honouring Israel's former leaders, in Jerusalem on March 30.-RONEN ZVULUN/REUTERS

Separatists' verdict

The election results show the Kadima party finishing first, but there is nothing pointing to a just and peaceful solution to the key issues.
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Former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.-ELIANA APONTE /AP

An excuse for Israel

Behind the facade of outrage, the Israeli leadership is pleased. Once again, it can protest that there is no partner for the `peace process' and proce
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Israeli settlers demonstrate against Ariel Sharon's plan to pull out from the Gaza Strip.-MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP

The devil is in the details

Without an explicit goal and an explicit timetable for specific moves, the Sharm al-Sheikh agreement is yet another milestone on the road to nowhere.
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In the northern West Bank town of Jenin on November 1, a boy waves the Palestinian flag during skimishes between Palestinians and Israeli troops.-

Drama and expectation

Israel is now at the start of a new game of playing for time. The road map will be revived or some other formula will be spun out; Palestinians, of co
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