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...dance music at the Schwartz Bar Mitzvah in the next hall thumps through the walls of the gaudy banquet room where Benjamin Netanyahu is making a pitch to send Yasser Arafat packing. "We have to throw him out," the former Israeli Prime Minister tells a gathering of 600 activists from his right-wing Likud Party. "Put him on a plane out of here." The Likud supporters, who have come from all over northern Israel to the port city of Haifa to hear him speak, rise to their feet and drown out the DJ with a rhythmic chant of Netanyahu...
...Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made Sharon's failure to end the Palestinian uprising the centerpiece of his own campaign for a political comeback. The alternative program he outlined to TIME this week is a far more extensive invasion of PA territory than the one Sharon launched two weeks ago. Its objective would be to drive Arafat back into exile - Netanyahu believes the Palestinian leader can't be trusted to stop terror attacks, let alone conclude a peace deal with Israel - and to take down and disarm not only the various militia and terrorist cells but also the security...
...Sharon loyalists of Netanyahu's plan. But the problem for the prime minister is that right now his own approval ratings are at an all-time low, and Netanyahu can count on a majority of Likud Party members to make him, rather than Sharon, their candidate in any new election...
...quit, bringing his government down. If that were to happen, new elections would follow. With Israelis in a hawkish mood, Sharon's right-wing Likud Party would almost surely make significant electoral gains. But Sharon might not be his party's candidate for Prime Minister. Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who told TIME last week that he intends to challenge Sharon at the next opportunity, has considerably more support within the Likud central committee...
...challenges from both right and left. Following the U.S. line allows him to reposition himself in the center, alongside his Labor Party coalition partners on whose support he will depend to stave off the collapse of his government as right-wingers defect - and hold his most dangerous challenger, Benjamin Netanyahu...