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...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 should deal with those its intelligence agencies conclude are engaged in terrorism...
...other Arabs. While Barak was willing to make concessions to the Arabs in the West Bank and the Golan Heights, Sharon is better known for calling Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader, a "liar and a murderer," and for encouraging Jews to settle in the West Bank and Gaza...
...acquiescence in what they see as Israel's slaughter of Palestinians in the 16-month-old Aqsa intifadeh. The U.S. will try to calm the conflict, but overt cooperation with Arab states will not be easy as long as Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza continues...
...West Bank city of Hebron to Palestinian control. His objective is not to stop the peace process altogether, but to be in control of it and drive hard bargains. While Barak had been weighing the Clinton plan to retreat from 95 percent of the West Bank and all of Gaza, Sharon is likely to offer short-term withdrawal from only another 13 percent of the West Bank, and invite the Palestinians to negotiate further. Rather than shutting down the process altogether, he's more likely to work to keep channels open and prevent himself being isolated as a hard-liner...
...himself as a dove with claws, Arafat is faced with a strategic dilemma. While Bill Clinton was in the White House, Arafat's strategy was to compensate for the imbalance in power between himself and the Israelis by allowing (and even encouraging) political brushfires in the West Bank and Gaza, assuming that Washington would rush in to play fire brigade and earn him a few more concessions. But the Bush administration is likely to treat the region in a more hands-off fashion and, of course, Sharon may be a lot less sensitive to American sensibilities if confrontations escalate...