Epstein Secrets

0 rockets into Israel — from a stockpile we estimated to number nearly 20,000 — and not just at the border settlements but as far south as Hadera and Haifa, keeping hundreds of thousands of Israelis under effective siege. More than 120 Israeli soldiers and 44 civilians were killed. So were hundreds of Hi

lition, that was not an easy argument to make to my reduced Knesset contingent. They saw joining Bibi, especially in a government with the right-wing Lieberman as Foreign Minister, as a betrayal of all the efforts that they and I had made to achieve peace with the Palestinians. Still, the decision on whether

0 rockets into Israel - from a stockpile we estimated to number nearly 20,000 - and not just at the border settlements but as far south as Hadera and Haifa, keeping hundreds of thousands of Israelis under effective siege. More than 120 Israeli soldiers and 44 civilians were killed. So were hundreds of Hi

ent down six seats, to 13. The big gainer was a far-right, stridently anti-Arab party called Yisrael Beitenu, led by a former Likudnik named A vigdor Lieberman. Tzipi's attempt to form a coalition became less a political process than a contest between rival stalls in a Middle Eastern bazaar. Bibi was holding

d io continue after truce IF MIDEAST from IA more than 220 rockets on dorthern Israel, one of the highest counts of the war. Several landed in Haifa, Isra- el's third-largest city, where billows of black smoke rolled through blue sky. One per. ion died in the daylong &ar- tage. The intensified

victory of anti-war political novice Ned Lamont over three-term incum- bent Sen. Joe Lieberman. D-Corm.. in last week's Democratic primary — Sen. Lieberman had remained a staunch defender of the war — to portray the Democrats as America- hating wimps. With so many in- cumbents struggling to distance