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...unseemly haste with which Israel's Labor party has rushed to join Ariel Sharon's Likud in a unity coalition may indicate a paradigm shift in Israeli politics. After all, just two weeks ago Ehud Barak was warning Israeli voters that electing Sharon would be a national catastrophe; on Tuesday Barak was locked in negotiations over how to join Sharon in government. The outgoing prime minister also signed off on the overnight assassination of a Palestinian activist in Gaza by missiles fired from an Israeli helicopter, as a reminder that the two parties take a common view of how Israel...
...Ehud Barak announced after his election defeat that he would quit the Labor party leadership. But right now he's negotiating a unity government with Ariel Sharon - does he plan to stay on as Labor leader...
...will not be 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...
...Tuesday, Feb. 6, Israel held elections for its 12th prime minister, a man who will play the lead role in developing and implementing Israeli foreign policy. The election results revealed that Ariel Sharon, who won by a 20 percent margin over incumbent Ehud Barak, will be the new face of Israel...
...Sharon 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...