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...hundreds of Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in 1982 was assassinated in a Beirut car-bomb explosion. Elie Hobeika had no shortage of enemies, but initial suspicion has fallen on Israel. Hobeika met earlier last week with Belgian officials considering war crimes charges against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The potential charges, permitted under Belgian law, stem from Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon, when Sharon was Defense Minister and strongly allied to Hobeika's Lebanese Forces. Sharon was forced to resign after an Israeli panel held him indirectly responsible for the massacres. In Israel and the Palestinian...
Ehud Barak's apocalyptic campaign ads notwithstanding, the anticipated election victory of Ariel Sharon next Tuesday is unlikely to plunge the Middle East into war. The deadline for the Labor party to substitute the more popular Shimon Peres for the beleaguered prime minister passed Friday, leaving Barak to face the hawkish Likud leader, who currently enjoys a lead of up to 20 percent in the polls. Having escaped the shadow of Peres, Barak may narrow that gap somewhat by Tuesday, but not even the most optimistic gambler would bet on his beating Sharon on election day. Come Wednesday, all stakeholders...
Ehud Barak has now suspended negotiations that his critics had dismissed as electioneering. But without the prospect of a peace deal, what tricks does Barak still have in his hat to reel in Ariel Sharon's 16-point lead...
...Prime Minister Ehud Barak's statement Thursday that a peace agreement was unlikely before Israelis go to the polls on February 6 was a masterful understatement. Right now, opinion polls show that whether or not Barak cuts a new deal, he'll be comfortably beaten by arch-hawk Ariel Sharon on election day - and that would reduce any new deal to no more than a chronicle of what might have been. Because while Barak has thus far failed to tempt Arafat to accept 95 percent of the West Bank and all of Gaza, as well as a patchwork of Jerusalem...
...Both sides are convinced that they cannot reach an agreement, because the gap between them is still too deep. The Palestinians are going to the talks because they don't want to be blamed as the ones who helped Ariel Sharon become prime minister of Israel. And Barak sent his negotiators because he wants to fish for a few votes from Israeli Arabs by showing that he's still talking peace. So both sides went to Taba for tactical reasons rather than to achieve a strategic goal, which is peace...