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d"—Europe has reached the moment of truth. It's binary. Either German Chancellor Angela Merkel has to bow to the logic of her predecessor but one, Helmut Kohl, who always saw monetary union as a route to federalism, or it's EFTA_R1_02204146 EFTA02720617 over—and the process of European disintegration i
ai in 1982 and from Gaza in 2007, and no one is discussing the Golan these days due to Syria's internal crisis. But the future of Jerusalem and the West Bank remains a matter of intense international -- including American -- diplomatic effort. While professional peacemakers may want to E FTA_R 1_02204150
e as EFTA00684268 protection against both a resurgent Germany and the Soviets in the late 1940s. This was the America whose movie-actor president Helmut Kohl, Francois Mitterrand and Margaret Thatcher looked to for trans-Atlantic solidarity, and to whom Polish workers and Soviet dissidents turned for ho
e. Which doesn't inspire confidence in Israeli leaders that Europe would accept Israel's right to self-defense if a future Palestinian state in the West Bank became a similar hotbed of extremism and revisionist politics. It is always comfortable for Europeans to demand that Israel make hard decisions fo
KOHL AND RABIN TURN ISRAEL INTO A MODERN SUBMARINE POWER The two men who finally catapulted Israel into the circle of modern submarine powers were Helmut Kohl and Yitzhak Rabin. Rabin's father had fought in World War II as a volunteer in the Jewish Legion of the British army, and Rabin himself led the Isr
Stern. Yet Israel is a country, Schmidt suggests, that "makes a peaceful solution practically impossible, through its policies of settlement in the West Bank and, for far longer, in the Gaza Strip." He also condemns the EFTA00712612 current chancellor for, in his view, allowing herself to be essentially
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Benjamin Netanyahu
PERSON
Barack Obama
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Jerusalem
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George W. Bush
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United States
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Lebanon
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Bill Clinton
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Bashar al-Assad
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Tehran
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Mahmoud Abbas
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Marc Rich
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Fatah
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Cairo
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Hosni Mubarak
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Damascus
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Middle East
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Hillary Clinton
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Ronald Reagan
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Ehud Barak
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