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...emphasizing, as any candidate would, his fealty to the core beliefs of the vast majority of his electorate - beliefs which the U.S. media and administration have tended to ignore in their bid to project a fantasy persona onto Abbas as the White Knight who will deliver Palestinian consent to Ariel Sharon's peace terms...
...Suffice to say that while the Israeli government of Ehud Barak offered less, even Barak's offer was vehemently rejected by Ariel Sharon. So, Abbas is keen to resume negotiations with Israel on the basis of President Bush's "roadmap," which leads inexorably to the completion of the Oslo peace process. Sharon prides himself on having buried Oslo...
...Abbas wants to be the President of all the Palestinians, and bring them along behind his strategy for achieving statehood. But completing the Oslo process is, to put it mildly, not exactly what Ariel Sharon has in mind. Indeed, the Israeli prime minister resurrected his political career and eventually won the prime minister's job - an outcome unthinkable even in his own party until it became inevitable following the onset of the September 2000 intifada - by leading an aggressive campaign against the Oslo process. Yasser Arafat was widely pilloried in the U.S. for rejecting what was offered at Camp David...
Full Steam Ahead MIDDLE EAST Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said the government would use "all its might" against settlers who violently resist the government's planned withdrawal from Gaza. A coalition deal signed between Sharon's ruling Likud party, the opposition Labor party and a small, ultra-orthodox Jewish group ensured the plan will have majority support in parliament...
...thrive. "It made him very excited," says Sharansky. "He said, 'These are the things that I believe, but here you give a theoretical basis for those beliefs.' He said he is going ahead even though he knows that the two most hated people in the world are he and Ariel Sharon...