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...While Israeli leaders such as Ariel Sharon and Benjamin Netanyahu are pressing Prime Minister Ehud Barak to ratchet up the economic pressure on the Palestinians - for example, taking advantage of the fact that Israel still controls water and electricity supplies to the territories under Yasser Arafat's control - others share the concerns of international monitors over the long-term effect of such a strategy. After all, the declining economic circumstances make it a lot easier for Hamas to recruit young men as suicide bombers, its promise of the paradise of martyrdom holding considerably more allure amidst squalor and hopelessness than...
...when it delivers its report in March may create pressure for Washington to be more critical than it has been until now of the conduct of its Israeli ally. That could easily have the effect of driving Israeli voters toward the right-wing Likud party, whose leaders, such as Ariel Sharon and Benjamin Netanyahu, have shown far less sensitivity toward American concerns than has Barak...
...quite set in stone that an election is imminent, despite everything that's been said. If you look at what's really happened, it may be that Barak has simply bought himself more time. He could still get the national unity government for which he'd been pushing - Ariel Sharon has certainly expressed renewed interest in that idea. And instead of a parliamentary election, Barak could still take the option of resigning himself, which would mean that a new election would be held only for the post of prime minister. That would ensure that he gets to run directly against...
...defeat in his efforts to stop Israel's parliament from adopting a motion to force new elections, the Israeli prime minister shocked his opponents Tuesday by simply calling a new election himself after serving only 18 months of his four-year term. Having failed to coax hawkish opposition leader Ariel Sharon into a national unity government, Barak found his minority government isolated in the legislature. By calling new elections, he's opted for a referendum on how Israel should respond to the political crisis brought on by the collapse of the peace process. But his chances of reelection may depend...
...first, and perhaps most important, contest of the new election campaign will be the battle for the Likud party's nomination. Party leader Ariel Sharon believes he's the man for the job, and has been agitating in recent weeks for an even more aggressive Israeli response to the Palestinian uprising, including expanded use of selective assassinations and cutting off water and electricity supplies to Palestinian territories. But Sharon also has to contend with a high negative rating among many Israelis, made worse by his provocative visit to Jerusalem's Temple Mount two months ago, which set off the current...