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...affected, at least not immediately or directly, is the peace process. The last four months of violence have proven, to the extent that there is any dialogue about peace left to speak of, that Israeli politicians' roles are largely irrelevant to Yasser Arafat's conversation. If Ehud Barak could not say anything to bring his Palestinian counterparts closer to a final peace deal, or at least end the violence on the ground, there is no reason to expect Sharon's defiant rhetoric to have a greater effect...
...Barak's failure, even after months of continued concessions and daily offers of sweeter deals, finally discredited the activists in Israel's peace camp. Palestinians insist that Israel cannot dictate peace terms to them until they're good and ready, and the boycott of the recent elections by Israeli Arabs reinforced the message that, from the Palestinian perspective, nothing Israel does will affect their position. By denying any significant difference between Sharon and Barak, as Arafat seemed to do in his rancorous election-eve speech in Davos, Switzerland, the Palestinians are guaranteeing that the current situation of violence and gridlock...
...will serve as a cooling-off period for both sides. Although his own Likud party holds relatively few seats in the fractured Knesset--the Israeli Parliament--Sharon is more likely to be able to restrain the virulent right-wing of Israeli politics than his defeated Labor-party adversary Ehud Barak. Given the difficulty of putting together a governing coalition, Sharon's government, like Barak, may be short-lived...
...going to meet Sharon, Barak (who is still acting prime minister until Sharon forms a new government), Arafat and leaders from a number of Arab states with whom the U.S. has had good relations in the past. And he'll urge them all to avoid fanning the flames of violence...
...Israelis have voted against Barak - or more correctly, refrained from voting for him - out of fear of where he was leading them. But he has warned that what they're reacting to is the inevitable price of peace, which, the past six months have shown, will come at a price far higher than that assumed by most Israelis. But despite recoiling from Barak, Israeli voters are unlikely to accept the inevitable deterioration of Israeli-Palestinian relations under Sharon. And that will probably push Israel's voters back toward Barak's party in a year or two, and the cycle will...