But wars and violence move electorates to the hawkish right, and Israel s operation in Gaza was no exception.

In short, Sharon was the ideal center candidate a leader who reconciled a dovish approach with a hawkish outlook.

This election s maverick, Russian born, secular and hawkish Avigdor Lieberman, got 15 seats for his hardline Yisrael Beitenu party.

In the wake of the Gaza war Lieberman deftly rode a hawkish tide, demanding declarations of loyalty from Israel s Arab citizens.

China s behavior has fueled a nationalist backlash in Japan, helping to turn hawkish, marginal politicians like Shintaro Ishihara into important mainstream figures.

Judging by Vice President Lyndon Johnson s hawkish comments at the time, the outcome might have been far worse if Kennedy had not been president.

The tone of ECB President Jean Claude Trichet s comments in the Q A section of the press conference following the October meeting was unusually hawkish.

And the acknowledgement came from General Chen Bingde, the chief of the People s Liberation Army, in an interview with Global Times, the Communist Party s hawkish mouthpiece.

The ice began to crack on November 17, when Representative John Murtha, a hawkish Democratic congressman and marine veteran, suggested pulling troops out of Iraq in six months.

Outside the South, female voters are less likely to be hawkish on foreign policy and more likely to support spending on health, education, and other social welfare programs.

A more hawkish fiscal stance may no longer be possible in future Democratic administrations, and might not be good policy if it were, given the likely complexion of successor administrations.

But, because Germany and the other northern surplus countries remain hawkish on price stability, real exchange rate adjustment within the eurozone requires actual wage and price deflation in the distressed southern economies.

For example, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan broke with tradition by displaying a critical attitude toward Israel s more hawkish policies in the occupied territories, and did so without severing diplomatic relations with Israel.

Menachem Begin, a hawkish predecessor of Netanyahu as prime minister, once had the insolence to say to the great historian Yaakov Talmon that, when it comes to the twentieth century, I am more an expert than you are.

The BJP has promised a more hawkish security posture than Congress in the wake of the Mumbai terrorist attacks, but when it was in power it conducted itself remarkably similarly to its rival, initiating a peace process with Pakistan.