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...18th-floor suite in the Sheraton Moriah, Ariel Sharon's close advisers and supporters gathered at 10 p.m. last Tuesday to watch the results of Israel's prime-ministerial election. Sharon, the Likud Party's candidate, sat directly in front of the television. When the newscasters announced his landslide win, the suite erupted in cheers as Sharon's people pumped the air with their fists. Only Sharon sat quietly, motionless and hunched. After his maverick, wilderness years as an outsider, the buck now stopped, dauntingly, with him. Prime Minister Ehud Barak phoned to concede. "Ehud, I want to tell...
...prioritizing stability over peace, Israel has left Yasser Arafat in an historic tight spot. Not that the Palestinian leader's dilemma will be of much concern to acting prime minister Ehud Barak and Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon, who announced late Thursday they'd agreed in principle to form a unity government. The priority of the unity coalition - in which it is mooted that Barak will serve as defense minister, Shimon Peres will be foreign minister and their Labor party will fill half of the 14 cabinet posts - will be Israel's security...
...Israel will, no doubt, retaliate for Wednesday's attack, and that retaliation will, no doubt, bring further terror attacks by Palestinians. And that reality is unlikely to be altered much by the change in Israel's government. Ariel Sharon was elected prime minister last week in the hope that he'd get tough with the Palestinians, but there may not be all that much he could do differently at a tactical level to respond to attacks such as the one that occurred Wednesday - indeed, he's trying to persuade Barak to stay on as his defense minister. Whether that retaliation...
...unseemly haste with which Israel's Labor party has rushed to join Ariel Sharon's Likud in a unity coalition may indicate a paradigm shift in Israeli politics. After all, just two weeks ago Ehud Barak was warning Israeli voters that electing Sharon would be a national catastrophe; on Tuesday Barak was locked in negotiations over how to join Sharon in government. The outgoing prime minister also signed off on the overnight assassination of a Palestinian activist in Gaza by missiles fired from an Israeli helicopter, as a reminder that the two parties take a common view of how Israel...
Ehud Barak announced after his election defeat that he would quit the Labor party leadership. But right now he's negotiating a unity government with Ariel Sharon - does he plan to stay on as Labor leader...