Mr Beilin, less outspoken, has preferred to meet other figures in the Palestinian leadership.
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Beilin understood that what Barak feared most was the fall of his government and new elections.
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The bill proposing a return to the old system is sponsored both by Labour's Yossi Beilin and Likud's Uzi Landau.
In so doing, it brought in Ehud Barak and Yossi Beilin, the withdrawal from Lebanon and the Camp David summit.
On October 31st 1995, Mr Beilin and Abu Mazen, the Palestinians' chief negotiator, met in Tel Aviv to approve the plan.
Others drifted to Meretz over the years, including that party's three most recent leaders: Shulamit Aloni, Yossi Sarid and Yossi Beilin.
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Labour's Yossi Beilin, a long-time campaigner for getting out of Lebanon, was joined this week by the Likud's Michael Eitan and the Centre Party's Ronni Milo.
On January 17th the Labour Party's central committee crushed a motion by Yossi Beilin, a former minister and indefatigable peace negotiator, to secede from the coalition government.
Two weeks ago Beilin met with the EU's External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner and elicited from her a clear EU rejection of Olmert's plan to determine Israel's borders.
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Yossi Beilin, a prominent dove and one of the original architects of the Oslo peace plan, disclosed the scheme on Wednesday November 18th and Mr Netanyahu's people did not deny it.
Meanwhile Yossi Beilin, a former Labour minister, and Yasser Abed Rabbo, a former minister in the Palestinian Authority, has signed a similar agreement, known as the Geneva accord, after two years of dogged negotiation.
Behind the scenes, however, there have been some active goings-on: if Mr Beilin's party is able to form Israel's next government, a document containing the basic ingredients of a final agreement will be at its disposal.
The latest disaster in Lebanon has compounded the confusion, with the hardest of hardliners, Ariel Sharon, and an avowed dove, Yossi Beilin, both publicly discussing the possibility of the unilateral withdrawal of Israeli forces from south Lebanon.
Regardless of who is in office, the likes of Brom, Dekel and Spiegel and their leader Yossi Beilin are always working with the Americans and Europeans to force Israel to maintain allegiance to the failed land for peace paradigm.
But Mr Netanyahu, who was abroad when Mr Beilin's bill passed by 50 votes to 45 (it will need 61 votes in later stages), is confident that his presence and persuasion will see off the measure next time it comes up.
Yossi Beilin - the dovish minister of justice within the Barak government - has warned that he will leave the party and take a number of parliamentary colleagues with him, if it decides to join a national unity government with Ariel Sharon.
On television one night, he got into a shouting match with Yossi Beilin, an architect of the Oslo Peace Accord, in the mid-nineties, telling him that the pact with Yasir Arafat had caused the deaths of sixteen hundred Israelis in terror attacks.
Some of these ideas were first broached by Yossi Beilin, now Israel's minister of justice, and Mahmoud Abbas (also known as Abu Mazen), who is regarded as Mr Arafat's deputy, in a discreet set of talks that were truncated by Rabin's death.
Yossi Beilin, a politician who is staunchly in the peace camp and one of the chief architects of the Israeli-Palestinian peace initiative called the Oslo Accords, said it will be impossible for Netanyahu to form his own government and he hopes none of the center-left parties join him.
Yossi Beilin, a politician who is staunchly in the peace camp and one of the chief architects of the Israeli-Palestinian peace initiative called the Oslo Accords, said he thinks that it will be impossible for Netanyahu to form his own government and he hopes none of the center-left parties join his government.
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