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...West Bank, thought they deserved another 30%, Arafat, as part of a strategic decision to get closer to the U.S., agreed last spring to an American compromise: 13%. Though ideologically opposed to withdrawing from any part of the West Bank, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, of the right-wing Likud, finally bowed at Wye. Says Robert Satloff, executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy: "Arafat scored big. He now has Likud agreeing to give up a significant piece of territory...
...scene is so horribly familiar. A sunny afternoon. Shoppers crowding a city street. Then the deadly blast of a bomb, carnage and chaos. Neither the former peacemaking Labor government nor the present security-minded Likud government has figured out a way to stop...
...soon as Labor can secure a majority vote in the Knesset. One way to do that could be recruiting one of his primary opponents, former ambassador to Spain Shlomo Ben-Ami, who claims to have support among the Sephardim, or Middle Eastern Jews, who have traditionally leaned toward Likud. Considering Netanyahu's hair's-width victory over Peres in 1996 and the Prime Minister's damaged reputation among Israel's moderates, a few such inroads may be all Barak needs...
...fight for survival in the court of public opinion. As he always does when on the defensive, he counterattacked ferociously. While his closest aides floated accusations of police plots, leaks and a political vendetta to reverse the will of the electorate, Netanyahu appeared before the party faithful at Likud headquarters in Tel Aviv. "This government is not going anywhere," he roared. "We are staying in the place where the people and history...
Netanyahu's problems are potentially graver within his own ruling coalition. Even some Likud leaders were visibly cool about supporting Netanyahu in the days immediately following the police report. "He is getting very little backing from his own party," says Gadi Wolfsfeld of Hebrew University, "because he hurt so many people...