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Stabile, Alberto
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2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
New Israeli settlements bury hopes of peace
Defying international pressure Israel ended the ten-month freeze on the construction of Jewish settlements in the Palestinian West Bank on Sunday night. This destroys any hope of the Middle East talks initiated by the US government being a success, writes the left-liberal daily La Repubblica: "Enemy number one, of course, is the US president, ... who is disparagingly referred to as 'Hussein Obama' here. And if there is a winner in this tug of war then it's the Israeli prime minister, who has refused to give in to US pressure for an extension of the freeze. ... For no one here believes in the possibility of successful peace talks. ... Danny Danon, the rising star of the conservative Likud bloc, has swept Obama's ideas as 'wishful thinking' the 'consequences of which they are forced to bear' from the table. Netanyahu had therefore done well to oppose the ideas. And as long as he resists the pressure of the Americans he has nothing to fear from the ruling majority in his government."
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More from the press review on the subject » Security Policy / Crises / War, » Middle East, » Israel
Ceauşescus' fans welcome exhumation
Almost 21 years after the end of the communist regime in Romania the alleged remains of ex-dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu and his wife Elena were exhumed on Wednesday at Bucharest's military cemetery for the purpose of establishing their identity. The left-liberal daily La Repubblica fears that the dictators' supporters will take action: "The goal of the several attempts to exhume the bodies of the Ceauşescus, shot to pieces by an execution squad so young it barely knew how to use weapons, seems to be to establish their identity once and for all. This already controversial procedure will perhaps serve as an opportunity for some of their eternal supporters (who never showed their faces the days of the revolution in Bucharest and Timişoara) to demand a church funeral service and an honourable burial in a mausoleum built specially for them, in accordance with the will of their late son Nicu."
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