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...election opinion polls were accurate. Ariel Sharon humiliated Prime Minister Ehud Barak in Israel's election, Tuesday, with Israeli television reporting that the hawkish Likud leader romped home by margin of 59.5 percent to 40.5 percent. But those figures hide the fact that a massive stay-at-home by those who had propelled Barak into the top job less than two years ago created the lowest turnout in Israeli history...
...Although Sharon is likely to jam the brakes on the frenzied peace talks of the weeks leading up to the election, his victory is a symptom of the failure of the peace process, rather than its cause. The Likud leader had campaigned against what he saw as Ehud Barak's reckless handling of negotiations with the Palestinians, and has made no secret of the fact that he plans a major rewind of the peace process - his message to the Palestinians has been to disregard any offers made by the Barak government. Rather than trying to finalize a peace agreement, Sharon...
...popularity in this year's polls was eclipsed by that of Netanyahu, despite his having been hounded out of office by an electorate all but holding its nose some 18 months ago. And of course the man they elected by a near landslide to replace him was the same Ehud Barak they have now resoundingly rejected...
...donor and fund raiser who has raked in millions of dollars for the Democratic Party during the past eight years. Rich's lawyer in the pardon case, Jack Quinn, was once Clinton's general counsel. Quinn personally lobbied Clinton, and various dignitaries--including, sources tell TIME, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and King Juan Carlos of Spain--contacted Clinton on Rich's behalf...
...past six months, Sharon's advisers have built an image of their candidate as a man of peace. Hard peace, perhaps, but a peace that makes sense to Israeli voters who are disappointed with Prime Minister Ehud Barak. It's an image deeply at odds with Sharon's reputation as an ironfisted, extremist adventurer, the man most associated with Israel's disastrous war in Lebanon and with the defiant Jewish settlements in the West Bank...