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Netanyahu says he will decide in coming weeks whether to make a comeback, but associates in the Likud Party insist he will. With parliament reconvening in three weeks and Barak hobbled by a minority government, new elections appear likely. Netanyahu polls far better than current Likud leader Ariel Sharon, who has started campaigning to fend off a challenge. Sharon made a grandstanding visit to the most contentious site in Jerusalem, the Temple Mount, which is claimed by both Israelis and Palestinians. That sparked Palestinian riots in which at least 20 were killed. It may be just the first battle...
Fighting and rioting has flared between Palestinians and the Israeli army since Ariel Sharon's visit to a contested holy site late last week. The death toll has reached at least 54, with 42 Palestinian casualties...
...latest violence, which has claimed almost 70 lives - mostly Palestinian - began last Thursday, when controversial Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon led a large security detachment into the compound housing the Al Aksa mosque, Islam's third holiest site and the emotional epicenter of Palestinian sovereignty claims on Jerusalem. Sharon's move was a challenge to Barak's efforts to find a compromise with Arafat on the Holy City, and it set off a firestorm of Palestinian protest. After initial clashes atop the Temple Mount, every Israeli outpost in Arafat's territory became a lightning rod of rage for Palestinians, with...
...clashes began last Thursday with the arrival at the Al Aksa mosque, the third holiest site in Islam, of Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon, in a piece of political grandstanding designed to warn Prime Minister Ehud Barak off making any concessions on Jerusalem. The breadth and the intensity of the violence that has followed has been a resounding rejection on the Palestinian streets of U.S. and Israeli ideas on the future sovereignty over the Holy City. And the religious passion fueling that rejection - "jihad" (holy war) is the explanation most commonly cited by Palestinian demonstrators to explain their actions - will...
...that the Palestinians will offer equitable concessions. And though this may seem like political suicide - Barak runs the daily risk of losing his position to a Likud-led no-confidence vote - he can claim two key factors in his favor: The Palestinians would rather deal with him than with Ariel Sharon or Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Knesset may be less likely to oust him if he appears to have found a path to peace. It may be wishful thinking, but these days in the Middle East there isn't much else left...