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...Ariel Sharon, a military general and seasoned political veteran whom many had written off in Israeli politics because of his advancing age and checkered past, will soon be prime minister of Israel. Last Tuesday's election sported the largest margin of victory, albeit with the lowest turnout, of any election in Israel's history. Indeed, it seems that the Israeli public, weary of rioting Palestinians and rejected offers of peace, has given the signal to put a hold on a peace process that seemed just a few months ago to be closer than ever to settling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
...election opinion polls were accurate. Ariel Sharon humiliated Prime Minister Ehud Barak in Israel's election, Tuesday, with Israeli television reporting that the hawkish Likud leader romped home by margin of 59.5 percent to 40.5 percent. But those figures hide the fact that a massive stay-at-home by those who had propelled Barak into the top job less than two years ago created the lowest turnout in Israeli history...
...NABIL SHAATH, chief Palestinian negotiator, underlining the dangers of Israeli hard-liner Ariel Sharon winning prime ministerial elections...
...couple of weeks ago, Ariel Sharon sat in his shirtsleeves in the plush Tel Aviv office of his top campaign adviser. The 72-year-old Likud Party candidate in next week's prime ministerial elections was surrounded by his team of high-powered imagemakers, the professionals charged with persuading voters that the former general's reputation as a dangerous maverick is undeserved. At the end of the meeting to discuss his speaking schedule, Sharon raised his bulky frame and addressed his handlers. "I have to thank you all for making me look like such a very nice guy," he said...
...about Arafat, perhaps letting his real ideas out of the closet. But his worst moment came when, addressing high-schoolers in Beersheva, he was confronted by Ilil Komey, 16, who told Sharon that her father had suffered mental disturbances ever since he was a soldier in the Lebanon war. "Ariel Sharon, I blame you for causing my father suffering for more than 16 years," she said. "I blame you for many things that caused suffering to many people in this country." Sharon's imagemakers stepped in: he stopped visiting high schools and canceled appearances before journalists...