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...ARIEL SHARON Israeli hawk takes just 17 months to get Barak on the ropes. Arafat impressed...
...Knesset was about to vote for a bill that would force new elections on Prime Minister EHUD BARAK, humiliating the man who took office 17 months ago. But Barak upstaged the body by saying he wouldn't oppose the bill. In effect, he squared off against opposition leader ARIEL SHARON and shadow candidate BENJAMIN NETANYAHU. If you want to fight, Barak said, let's rumble. But Barak had better watch his corner. Top names in his Labor Party are sneaking around the Knesset lining up support for taking over the party leadership before the likely May election. Barak's plan...
...While Barak's shock decision may appear to be a victory for the opposition Likud party of Ariel Sharon, it's decidedly double-edged. Barak had previously indicated that he would hold new elections some time next spring, in which pundits have been predicting he'd be trounced by former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was expected to challenge Sharon for the Likud nomination. But when the prime minister simply resigns, Israel's constitution requires an election for his replacement from among members of the current parliament - which excludes Netanyahu. The former prime minister had resigned his seat to take...
...Although the polls show Netanyahu way ahead of Barak, his party will now be forced to field Ariel Sharon as its candidate, or else turn to a leader of less national experience such as the rough-and-tumble grassroots organizer Silvan Shalom or the feisty party spokeswoman Limor Livnat. Either way, Barak clearly knows he has a better chance against any Likud candidate other than Netanyahu. Sharon certainly has higher negatives against his name than Netanyahu - no mean feat in light of the fact that the former prime minister is widely loathed even in his own party, after leading Likud...
...hour peace agreement with Arafat to take to voters, although prospects for such a breakthrough are receding almost daily as new waves of violence wash away progress toward a cease-fire. Indeed, parallel with his election track, Barak is still pursuing the option of sharing power with Likud leader Ariel Sharon in a national unity government - a handy tactic for both men to postpone the challenge of the election's undisputed front-runner, Benjamin Netanyahu. Either way, that's unlikely to usher in a bull market on the tiny Palestinian bourse...