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...Obstacle Course A British conference on reform of the Palestinian Authority went ahead in London, though Palestinian representatives had to join in from Ramallah and Gaza via video phone. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon refused to allow them to travel in the wake of a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. Palestinians accepted the need for reforms to pave the way to a democratic state and promised to present a draft constitution that would include an elected Prime Minister - a move to sideline President Yasser Arafat...
ISRAEL Coalition Busters The opposition Labor Party ruled out rejoining a government led by Likud's Ariel Sharon after the Jan. 28 elections. Labor leader Amram Mitzna said he could not serve under a Prime Minister so tainted by corruption, a reference to vote buying and illegal funding scandals. If he is unable to build a majority coalition with Labor, Sharon will be forced to ally with hawkish nationalist and religious parties that adamantly oppose a Palestinian state...
...call-ups for army reserve duty by ordinary Israelis, and it's erased almost entirely any lingering support for the concessions offered to the Palestinians in the 1993 Oslo peace accord. As a result, in the run-up to the Jan. 28 national election, in which Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is likely to trounce challenger Amram Mitzna, Lahav is in demand at clubs all over the country, and singalong television shows teach youngsters old campfire numbers from the 1948 Independence War. The intifadeh "has pushed Israeli society back in history to its Zionist ideological phase," says Benny Morris, a leading...
...ARIEL SHARON...
...indeed responsible for Mombasa, it will mark the first time the group has deliberately spilled Israeli blood. Osama bin Laden has railed against Israel for years but never struck against its people. The Mombasa attacks followed anti-Israeli references on his latest audiotape. For the administration of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, these attacks offered evidence to back up its long-standing argument, now gaining ground in Washington, that Israel's problems with the Palestinians are simply a subset of a world-terrorism conspiracy. On the same day as the Mombasa attacks, when Sharon's Likud Party was holding a primary...