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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his right-wing party, Likud, won the Tuesday elections in Israel. U.S. foreign policy analyst Yael Aronoff says, "The elections in Israel are another serious blow to a potential peace process between Israel and the Palestinians. The greater shift to the right makes a return to negotiations even less likely. The majority of Israelis support a two-state solution, yet want to send a strong message that violence on the part of the Palestinians does not pay. Rather than gaining more concessions from the Israelis, it has the opposite effect. The need for the United States to get more involved in trying to help the parties reach a resolution is increasingly evident and urgent."

Pre-elections terrorist attacks in Israel played into the hands of the terrorists by increasing votes for parties on the right who also want to foil any potential for substantial territorial compromise, says Aronoff, assistant professor of government at Hamilton College.

Aronoff researches and teaches courses on international relations, U.S. foreign policy, security and the Middle East peace process. She received her Ph.D. and master's in political science and international affairs from Columbia University and received her B.A. in international relations from Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs and Public Policy. Aronoff worked as a Jacob K. Javits Fellow in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and was Assistant for Regional Humanitarian Programs in the Pentagon's Office of Humanitarian and Refugee Affairs. She has published articles including "When and Why Do Hardliners Become Soft? An Examination of Israeli Prime Ministers Yitzhak Shamir, Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, and Benjamin Netanyahu," Profiling Political Leaders and the Analysis of Political Leadership: The Cross-Cultural Study of Personality and Behavior, eds. Ofer Feldman and Linda Valenty (Westport: Greenwood, 2000) and "Domestic Determinants of Israeli Foreign Policy: The Peace Process from the Declaration of Principles with the PLO to the Interim Agreement with the Palestinian Authority," The Middle East Peace Process After the Oslo Agreements, ed. Robert O. Friedman (Gainesville: Florida University Press, 1998), co-authored with Myron J. Aronoff.


 

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