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Benjamin Netanyahu bounced into the dirt lot outside another polling station in his armored Chevrolet Suburban. Israel's former Prime Minister climbed confidently out into a crowd of voters gathered in this blue-collar town hard by Tel Aviv's airport. A few began singing a Hasidic song: "Messiah, Messiah." In a stronghold of the Likud Party that Netanyahu used to head, that seemed no exaggeration. It is the hard-line nationalism of the Likud and its likely right-wing coalition partners that these people want, and Foreign Minister Netanyahu is the man they think best suited to sell...
...Obstacle Course A British conference on reform of the Palestinian Authority went ahead in London, though Palestinian representatives had to join in from Ramallah and Gaza via video phone. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon refused to allow them to travel in the wake of a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. Palestinians accepted the need for reforms to pave the way to a democratic state and promised to present a draft constitution that would include an elected Prime Minister - a move to sideline President Yasser Arafat...
...country's effort to build an individualistic, high-tech economy. Most Israelis hoped their country would become like anyplace else: ordinary, boring and safe. But two years of violent intifadeh - bloody Israeli occupation of West Bank towns and frequent Palestinian suicide bombings, like the twin attacks in Tel Aviv that claimed 22 lives on Jan. 5 - have snapped Israelis back into the mixture of nationalism and fear at the root of Zionism. What used to be a minority view - the conviction that Israel's enemies mean to wipe it off the map and that to make peace is to invite...
...villages by the Israeli government and, therefore, don't get municipal funding. Israeli Arabs are much less likely to go to college and, in a security-conscious country, they're constantly questioned by police on the streets. Others complain that it takes them much longer to get through Tel Aviv airport security checks than their Jewish fellow citizens. And when they do elect the handful of Arabs who sit in the Knesset, Israeli Arab voters complain the legislators spend more time gabbing about their cousins in the West Bank and Gaza than they do focusing on domestic discrimination. The crackdown...
...Palestinian conflict back to the headlines for the first time in some six weeks, violence has in fact been a daily staple of the current stalemate for months. Some 65 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank and Gaza since December 1, and while the Tel Aviv bombers may have carried out the first terror attack inside Israel in six weeks, attacks on Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza are a daily occurrence. A White House spokeswoman dubbed Sunday's attack an attempt to "derail the peace process," but that sounded like language from...