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...Reported by Lisa Beyer, Bonnie Rochman and Eric Silver/Jerusalem, Jamil Hamad/Bethlehem, Scott MacLeod/Paris, Lara Marlowe/Beirut and J.F.O. McAllister/Washington
...absentee ballots had to be counted to break what was a virtual tie between Netanyahu and Peres. After Friday's results, Netanyahu will have 45 days to put together a coalition government. "He will form a coalition with right wing and centrist parties," says TIME's Lisa Beyer. "He can easily count on 66 of the 120 Knesset seat with an additional 3 seats that will support him outside of his government. This will give him a very strong hand and the ability to seriously hinder the peace process." Netanyahu owes his victory to the feeling among many Israelis that...
...rule in Gaza and the West Bank, but opposes Palestinian statehood or trading occupied land for peace with Israel's neighbors. He has moderated his tough stance on the PLO, saying recently that he would meet with Yasser Arafat. Despite the election's dramic turn, Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer says a Netanyahu victory would not alter Israeli policy, at least for now: "In the short term, not much will change. There are no talks with Syria at the moment, and there is a lull in negotiations with the Palestinians. The real change will come in the medium and long...
...Arafat, saying recently that he would negotiate with the Palestinian leader. Despite the high stakes, the campaign has been run in an uncharacteristically restrained manner for the usually rough and tumble world of Israeli politics. "It has been an extraordinarily calm day," says TIME's Jerusalem Bureau Chief Lisa Beyer. "After Rabin's assassination, the Israeli people have become rather wary of extremism...
...after suicide bombings that killed 63. Worried about recent warnings of terrorist attacks by groups opposed to the peace process with the Palestinians, Peres has said he might consider postponing the withdrawal. A might be the politically smart thing to do as elections approach, says Jerusalem Bureau Chief Lisa Beyer: "The pullout from Hebron is certainly going to entail the necessity of cracking down on fanatical settlers who live there and it will be a very ugly picture to have on the eve of Israeli elections," says Beyer. The pullout plan described in the Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement requires Israeli...