Israel could convert a privately negotiated blueprint into a lasting peace deal with Syria within months if Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is willing to take the political risk, a key Israeli drafter of the plan said yesterday. Alon Liel, director general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry under former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, said he thinks Syria remains interested in the outlines of the unofficial deal, the product of two years of secret, unofficial contacts monitored closely by both the Jewish state and Damascus.
JERUSALEM - Israel's bloody, bungled takeover of a Gaza-bound Turkish aid vessel is complicating U.S.-led Mideast peace efforts, deepening Israel's international isolation and threatening to destroy the Jewish state's ties with key regional ally Turkey. And while Israel had hoped to defend its tight blockade of Hamas- ruled Gaza with Monday's high-seas raid, it instead appeared to be hastening the embargo's demise, judging by initial international condemnation.
... our political international standing," said Alon Liel, a former Israeli diplomat posted in Turkey. ...
Reportedly, senior defense officials from South Africa and Israel met in late March-early April 1975, during which time the Israelis offered to sell nuclear warheads to the Apartheid regime; while the South Africans refused the deal due in part to high costs, Israeli officials tried to prevent South Africa from declassifying the archive, one which included a security and secrecy agreement signed by then-Israeli Defense Minister and current President Shimon Peres and his South African counterpart P.W. Botha, who would later become prime minister and the country's first state president.
... government officials such as Beilin and Alon Liel, who was ambassador to South Africa from 1992...
JERUSALEM - Less than a month after they began, Middle East peace talks are in trouble over Israel's refusal to extend its 10-month- old curbs on new West Bank settlement - in defiance of President Barack Obama's explicit request, delivered last week at the United Nations. A magic formula might yet be found, and the Palestinians, despite threats to bolt the talks, might in the end resign themselves to the renewal of limited construction. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has given last-ditch talks another week - and then the 22-member Arab League convenes, presumably to give the Palestinians cover for any decision they take.
..., it will hurt him politically," said Alon Liel, a left- leaning analyst and former senior di...
...--Israel's newly appointed ambassador Alon Liel, a critic of the Jewish state's earlier polic...
JERUSALEM -- The diplomatic crisis between the U.S. and Israel has sent a tremor through their alliance, but one key part of the bond seems virtually untouchable: the roughly $3 billion a year in U.S. military aid. Israel's harsher critics often call for aid cuts to twist Israel's arm. Yet amid the uproar of recent days over plans to build 1,600 new homes for a Jewish neighborhood in a disputed part of Jerusalem, there has been no serious talk of using aid as a club.
... Africa during the mid-1980s, according to Alon Liel, a retired Israeli diplomat who served in Pre...
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey expelled Israel's ambassador and cut military ties on Friday over Israel's refusal to apologize for last year's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, further straining a relationship that had been a cornerstone of regional stability. The dramatic move came hours before the release of a U.N. report that called the Israeli raid that killed nine pro-Palestinian activists "excessive and unreasonable." The U.N. panel also blamed Turkey and flotilla organizers for contributing to the deaths.
... with Turkey, it will be a miracle," said Alon Liel, a former Israeli ambassador to Turkey. "Ther...
There is no chance whatsoever that Syria could agree to these terms ahead of peace negotiations. They are as improbable as asking Israel to sever its ties with the United States. Syria's alliances with Iran and Hizbullah are its lifeline: strategic cards to be played during, not before, a negotiation. Moreover. Syria has strategic interests in Lebanon, vital for its national security, which it is not about to give up. All this would seem promising except that neither the enfeebled Israeli premier, [Ehud Olmert], nor his chief patron, U.S. President George Bush, is at all ready for a dialogue with Syria. In Israel, military and security hawks dream of a 'second round' in Lebanon to destroy Hizbullah and put an end. once and for all. to Syrian influence, while the general public seems mos...
... ('Abe') Soleiman, a U.S.-based Syrian, and Alon Liel, a former director general of Israel's foreig...
Assuming the office of top diplomat has not yet tamed Avigdor Lieberman, judging from his continued blunt statements rejecting Israeli-Arab peace talks. Israel's new foreign minister declared recently that the U.S.- backed peace process was at a "dead end." Then he told an Austrian newspaper that Syria was not a "genuine" partner for peace and that the land-for-peace formula that would return the Golan Heights for a treaty with Damascus "simply doesn't work.
... among ministry professionals," said Alon Liel, a former director general of the foreign min...
Gorenberg discusses the so-called "support" provided by the American government to Israelis. When it comes to helping Israel solve its central, existential problem--containing and ending the conflict with the Palestinians--the Bush Administration has failed to use America's position as the only possible mediator.
..., now at the Brookings Institution, is not alone in that view. Diplomatic experts in the United Sta... prime minister in recent times," notes Alon Liel, former director-general of Israel's Foreign Minis...
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