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Transcript: Analysis: Prime Minister Ehud Barak resigns, with new elections to be scheduled, and former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will attempt to be a candidate
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- December 11, 2000
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Analysis: Prime Minister Ehud Barak resigns, with new elections to
be scheduled, and former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
will attempt to be a candidate
Host: ALEX CHADWICK
Time: 10:00-11:00 AM
ALEX CHADWICK, host:
The United States is not the only country in political turmoil. Israeli
politics were turned upside down over the weekend with the abrupt
resignation of Prime Minister Ehud Barak and the sudden return to
the political stage of his predecessor, Benjamin Netanyahu. NPR's
Linda Gradstein reports from Jerusalem.
LINDA GRADSTEIN reporting:
It was one of the most turbulent weekend in Israel's political history.
On Saturday ...