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...Shaath's well-appointed home--an incongruous sight in the midst of Gaza's rubble--one TV is tuned to CNN, another to Israeli television. Various radios blare with election news. The guests fidget and curse Peres' rival, Benjamin Netanyahu. "It's amazing," Shaath says, "for decades, each Israeli Prime Minister was as bad for us as every other. But this time our whole future is on the line. This is our election too, so of course we're all anxious--and believe me, no one is more anxious than Arafat. Given where we are with the peace process...
...next four years, though, all eyes will more than likely be focused on Benjamin Netanyahu in an intensive quest to discover what he will really do now that he has achieved his burning ambition to be Prime Minister. Some claim he is pragmatic enough to jettison hot campaign rhetoric for cool reason and enlightened choice when he must. But who can say whether the realpolitik pressures of governance will override an ingrained skeptical and vigilant view of the Arab world that underpins Likud's siege mentality? Its fundamental belief, says political scientist Sprinzak, "is, 'We're still at Masada, much...
...lead still apparently holding, Shaath and Arafat get on the phone to congratulate each other. Shaath pulls his wife aside for a kiss and a loud high five, then adds lustily, "Now we can eat, but we can avoid the bowls of sour cream. They were here in case Netanyahu won." By 1 a.m. the guests have cleared out. Shaath goes...
There is nothing Shaath, Arafat or any Palestinian leader can do now except hope that everything Bibi Netanyahu said during his campaign was nothing more than electioneering rhetoric. Three years ago, though, Shaath predicted a Netanyahu government would mean the "end of the peace process." Nothing that has happened since has caused him to change that view. He will probably soon begin to sound the optimistic notes that are the only acceptable public reaction Arafat and his aides can offer at a time like this. But in the shock of the moment Shaath candidly characterized Netanyahu's election...
When Benjamin Netanyahu's grandfather immigrated to Palestine from Lithuania in 1920, he changed his family name to one that means "God's gift." The grandson often seems to take that literally. Israel's new Prime Minister is self-assured; but more than that, he has the air of someone who is pleased with himself, someone who thinks he knows more than those around him--and deserves more. It is visible in his swagger, his smirk, his well-practiced gestures. Only a man with supreme confidence and a generous sense of entitlement could have wrested control of the Likud Party...