Word: ariel
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...ARIEL SHARON Israeli hawk takes just 17 months to get Barak on the ropes. Arafat impressed...
...While Barak's shock decision may appear to be a victory for the opposition Likud party of Ariel Sharon, it's decidedly double-edged. Barak had previously indicated that he would hold new elections some time next spring, in which pundits have been predicting he'd be trounced by former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was expected to challenge Sharon for the Likud nomination. But when the prime minister simply resigns, Israel's constitution requires an election for his replacement from among members of the current parliament - which excludes Netanyahu. The former prime minister had resigned his seat to take...
...Although the polls show Netanyahu way ahead of Barak, his party will now be forced to field Ariel Sharon as its candidate, or else turn to a leader of less national experience such as the rough-and-tumble grassroots organizer Silvan Shalom or the feisty party spokeswoman Limor Livnat. Either way, Barak clearly knows he has a better chance against any Likud candidate other than Netanyahu. Sharon certainly has higher negatives against his name than Netanyahu - no mean feat in light of the fact that the former prime minister is widely loathed even in his own party, after leading Likud...
...hour peace agreement with Arafat to take to voters, although prospects for such a breakthrough are receding almost daily as new waves of violence wash away progress toward a cease-fire. Indeed, parallel with his election track, Barak is still pursuing the option of sharing power with Likud leader Ariel Sharon in a national unity government - a handy tactic for both men to postpone the challenge of the election's undisputed front-runner, Benjamin Netanyahu. Either way, that's unlikely to usher in a bull market on the tiny Palestinian bourse...
...While Israeli leaders such as Ariel Sharon and Benjamin Netanyahu are pressing Prime Minister Ehud Barak to ratchet up the economic pressure on the Palestinians - for example, taking advantage of the fact that Israel still controls water and electricity supplies to the territories under Yasser Arafat's control - others share the concerns of international monitors over the long-term effect of such a strategy. After all, the declining economic circumstances make it a lot easier for Hamas to recruit young men as suicide bombers, its promise of the paradise of martyrdom holding considerably more allure amidst squalor and hopelessness than...