Word: pathe
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...half the globe. Sometimes statesmen stumble blindly over an epochal crossroads they do not know is there. Others are given the chance to see the fork in the road ahead and decide deliberately which way to go. Folly, wrote historian Barbara Tuchman, is when leaders knowingly choose the wrong path...
...after a contest so starkly cast, the road ahead is surprisingly obscure. Some fear it is simply dark, a right turn away from the path of peace; for others it is merely ambiguous. Netanyahu is Prime Minister by just 29,507 votes of 3.1 million cast, a decimal-point majority of 50.4%. To win at all, he embraced the peace process even as he promised actions that would thwart its success. He would negotiate with Syria but never give up the Golan Heights. He would abide by the Oslo agreements with the Palestinians but build more Jewish settlements...
...countries boast an electorate as passionately political and committed to their views as Israel's. Most voters knew long before the campaign where they stood on the peace process, on Labor's path vs. Likud's. The election turned not on some seismic slide from left to right but on the choices made by the 6% to 7% of perennially undecided, known as the floating vote, who are swayed more by emotion than ideology. Netanyahu won because he better captured their cautious mood after the suicide-bomb slaughter of 59 men, women and children in a shattering Hamas rampage over...
Peres' career is finished, and Israel's last direct link to its founding fathers is gone. Israeli political consultant Ron Werber calls Peres' indomitable path in politics "a via dolorosa" that has led through triumph to final humiliation and grave disappointment. After this last and most anguishing loss, Labor is likely to turn to a younger generation to carry the cause of peace in opposition. A leading contender is Ehud Barak, 54, the articulate, highly educated outgoing Foreign Minister and former military Chief of Staff. As Israel's most decorated soldier, he is the logical claimant to Rabin's tough...
...president, Montoya says she has chosen the social path, but not without reservations...