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...When Sharon, a longtime proponent of the settlements and a key figure in the founding of Gush Katif, announced that Israel would cede some of that Biblical land, religious Zionists questioned whether the great redemption was coming, after all. ?It's an ideological and spiritual crisis,? says Rabbi Yehuda Gilad, a religious Zionist leader. ?All this faith in redemption is collapsing.? Goldschmidt, the Ganei Tal farmer, resolves that quandary simply by asserting that ?Sharon's not a Zionist any more...
...attacks may jeopardize Sharon's plans to evacuate all Israeli settlers from Gaza as early as this summer, which is now viewed by U.S. officials as a critical first step toward peace. "Abbas doesn't have 100 days of grace. He doesn't even have 100 seconds," says Amos Gilad, an influential Defense Ministry policymaker. Top Palestinian officials say the attack at the Gaza checkpoint showed that extremists intend to use violence to bury any chance Abbas has of diplomatic progress - a strategy that yielded immediate results when Sharon suspended ties with Abbas the next day. Abbas is feeling pressure...
...such attacks could jeopardize Sharon's plans to evacuate all Israeli settlers from Gaza as early as this summer, which is viewed by U.S. officials as a critical first step toward peace. "Abbas doesn't have 100 days of grace. He doesn't even have 100 seconds," says Amos Gilad, an influential Israeli Defense Ministry policymaker. Top Palestinian officials say the attack at the Gaza checkpoint showed that extremists intend to use violence to bury any chance Abbas has of diplomatic progress. --By Matt Rees. With reporting by Jamil Hamad, Aharon Klein and Elaine Shannon
Looking For Allies ISRAEL Two of the Middle East's oldest enemies, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, found a rare bit of common ground last week. It came when Israeli Attorney General Menachem Mazuz decided not to indict Sharon and his son Gilad, despite prosecutors' recommendation that the Prime Minister should stand trial for allegedly accepting bribes from a real estate tycoon. That ruling opened the way for Sharon to expand his minority coalition to include, at least potentially, the dovish Labor Party. Sharon wants Labor onboard to help push his plan for a withdrawal...
...there, he likes to reminisce about his late wife Lili, whose grave lies on a hilltop under a tree starkly visible against the horizon from the kitchen window. Yet even the secluded ranch can be a reminder of his political troubles. He lives on the farm with Gilad, who is also embroiled in other corruption allegations, some of which concern mortgages and loans tied to the farm...