Saturday, February 7, 2009

Tiring of "moderates", many Israelis prefer 'iron fist'

"..That's bad news for the Obama administration's high-priority effort to revive peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, because the far-right parties oppose any concessions on key issues such as control of Jerusalem and the right of Jews to settle in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, between Israel and Jordan......The issue, if not the peace process . . . is security, and on security the public is on the right," Bick said. "There is disillusion about the peace process."

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