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...Gaza withdrawal strengthened or weakened former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bid to oust Ariel Sharon as leader of Likud, and as prime minister...
...Israeli observers believe Netanyahu miscalculated by challenging Sharon now. Netanyahu has argued that the withdrawal from Gaza will lead to a big increase in terrorism launched from the Gaza Strip. But moving the Likud party primaries forward to November in the hope of capitalizing on ill-feelings within the party, as his supporters did this week, could be a problem for him. On the old schedule - Likud primaries had been scheduled for spring, ahead of a November general election - the electorate would have a better chance of knowing whether Sharon or Netanyahu had been right about terrorism and Gaza. Currently...
...leaving against our will, but we are not going out with heads bowed." TZION TZION-TAWIL, rabbi, after helping to lead a prayer service of settlers and soldiers in Netzarim, the last Jewish settlement to be evacuated in Gaza...
...Islamists of Hamas, who oppose Abbas, claim it was their long war in Gaza that pushed out the Israelis, and want payback in the form of a big chunk of the 25 square miles of settlement land that will come under Palestinian control when the last Israeli soldiers leave (they're scheduled to depart in six weeks). Hamas wants to build low-income housing on the land to bolster popular support in advance of parliamentary elections set for January. Its leaders are casting Hamas as a national, rather than a purely Islamic, party that can beat Abbas' corrupt and unpopular...
...group's military chiefs are also threatening to strike against Israel to drive it out of the West Bank the way they claim they pushed it out of Gaza. Abbas' security brass isn't obeying his orders, making it hard for him to face down the Islamists and ensuring that he'll fall short of Sharon's demand for a complete end to violence. If Hamas gets a free hand in Gaza and its homemade rockets begin to land inside Israel, Sharon could also be in trouble--he faces party primaries in the spring and an election next fall...