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...Sharon has promised that if Arafat is able to return, Israel won't block him. But just as a potentially seismic shake-up of the Palestinian leadership was developing, there were deep rumblings on the Israeli side as well. Sharon won approval last week in Israel's parliament, the Knesset, for a bill scheduling the withdrawal of Israeli settlers from Gaza to begin next June. Sharon's aides say the plan, which would involve uprooting 21 settlements in Gaza and four in the West Bank, would make it easier to defend Israelis against terrorist attacks and deflect international pressure...
...Democracy (a joint initiative of Jewish National Fund, Media Watch International and Hamagshimim) this year include the American University, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Texas at Austin, UCLA and Ohio State with speakers such as former Soviet dissident and human rights activist Natan Sharansky, Member of Knesset Ephraim Sneh and media consultant Arnon Perlman among others...
...spends most of his time out of public view, working hard to maintain a sense of calm in his office even as his aides charge about outside the door in a flurry of diplomatic, legal and political activity. Last month, when he made a rare visit to the Knesset cafeteria for a lunch of chicken soup and schnitzel, not a single legislator approached his table to join him. Each night Sharon takes a helicopter from his office in Jerusalem to his Negev home, Sycamore Ranch. When he's there, he likes to reminisce about his late wife Lili, whose grave...
Still, with his political survival at stake, Sharon has shown flashes of the combativeness that propelled him to past political victories. At a closed meeting of the Knesset foreign-affairs and defense committee last week, Sharon brushed off an opposition politician, Yossi Sarid, who grilled him about whether he could function as Prime Minister while he was under investigation for corruption...
...determined to seize back the initiative from his critics by pressing forward with his disengagement plan. He surprised Likud Party members last week by announcing that he will ask them to vote on his plan next month. He hopes to ratchet up pressure on right-wing members of the Knesset, who oppose any abandonment of settlements in the occupied territories, to go along with the plan to withdraw from Gaza, which enjoys the support of most grass-roots Likud members and a majority of Israeli voters. Sharon aims to bypass his political opponents by appealing to a broader constituency...