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...Washington, the Bush Administration swatted away complaints from right-wing hawks that the President was overselling the Islam-is-a-peaceful-religion line. Bush visited a mosque in Washington D.C. on the occasion of 'Id al-Fitr, the feast marking the end of Ramadan. The White House even persuaded Ariel Sharon to be conciliatory: Israel's Prime Minister offered the Palestinians a demilitarized state by 2005, encompassing parts of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. There was no chance Palestinians would accept such a deal, since it barred them from East Jerusalem. They rejected it, demanding Israel leave...
...plastic explosives packed into Reid's shoe - meaning that those operatives are still at large this holiday season. - By Bruce Crumley/Paris. With reporting by Helen Gibson/London ISRAEL Staying Power Benjamin Netanyahu's dream of an easy return to Israel's Prime Minister's mansion collapsed when incumbent Ariel Sharon thrashed him by 15% in a Likud leadership primary. Netanyahu vowed to work with Sharon in the Jan. 28 general election. Although his chances of retaining the Foreign Ministry after an anticipated Likud victory have dwindled, Bibi can't be written off yet. At 53, he is 20 years younger than...
...that anything's better than the man he defeated, party hack Binyamin Ben-Eliezer. And they don't expect Mitzna to lead them to victory in the elections, which are likely to show a wartime swing to the right. After 20 months in Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's "national unity" coalition, Labor just wants a dovish alternative to the hard line. They can count on Mitzna for that. As Prime Minister, he promises, he'd restart negotiations with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. If there was no peace agreement after a year of talks, he'd unilaterally withdraw from the entire...
Given the decision by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to call new elections, it's highly unlikely there will be progress anytime soon on peace initiatives in the Middle East. But that doesn't mean the U.S. should be idle. If it is to gain trust in the Arab world and dispel the notion that it will support Israel no matter what, the Administration needs to spell out publicly what the Palestinians must do to win U.S. support for their longed-for state. Washington should also show what it believes the boundaries of such a state should be, with real...
ISRAEL The Bickering Begins Ariel Sharon called an early general election for January after failing to secure a narrow, right-wing coalition. But the real contest for Prime Minister has already begun. Benjamin Netanyahu, Sharon's old nemesis and new Foreign Minister, wasted no time throwing his hat in, saying he wanted the top job because "the country is in dire straits and we have to get it out." His unsubtle implication: Sharon botched it. The two men publicly disagreed on the U.S.-authored "road map" to Israeli-Palestinian peace, which involves an immediate handover of cash owed the Palestinian...