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...shoe - meaning that those operatives are still at large this holiday season. - By Bruce Crumley/Paris. With reporting by Helen Gibson/London ISRAEL Staying Power Benjamin Netanyahu's dream of an easy return to Israel's Prime Minister's mansion collapsed when incumbent Ariel Sharon thrashed him by 15% in a Likud leadership primary. Netanyahu vowed to work with Sharon in the Jan. 28 general election. Although his chances of retaining the Foreign Ministry after an anticipated Likud victory have dwindled, Bibi can't be written off yet. At 53, he is 20 years younger than Sharon. Much will hinge...
...vacated the center and Sharon is sliding in," says Dan Schueftan, a Haifa University professor and friend of Mitzna. Sharon's response to the Jerusalem bus bomb that killed 11 Israelis last Thursday shows what Mitzna is up against. To cast himself as the moderate in this week's Likud primary, where he'll face off against Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Sharon ordered Israeli troops to close in on Bethlehem, the bomber's hometown. But the military operation was much more restrained than the massive invasions of the spring and summer. The 74-year-old Prime Minister is staking...
...involves an immediate handover of cash owed the Palestinian authority and, by 2005, a Palestinian state. Netanyahu said the prospect of war against Iraq pushed the plan off the government's agenda, but Sharon was more conciliatory toward Washington. The battle between the heavyweights will be decided by the Likud Party's 305,000 members in a leadership election due within a month. The winner will almost certainly become Prime Minister, since opinion polls indicate gains for right-wing parties as long as Israelis regard themselves as being at war with the Palestinians. As with previous elections, suicide bombers will...
...country's shrinking economy. But there's nothing new about either the government's support for the settlements or the economic woes of millions of Israelis, which has Israeli analysts opining that ben-Eliezer is simply reaching for a wedge issue to distinguish his party from Sharon's Likud ahead of elections scheduled for November...
...party will easily win a new election, possibly by an even larger margin than it did in February 2001. Indeed, the most competitive race in the coming election cycle will not be between Sharon and ben-Eliezer but between Sharon and former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the Likud nomination...