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...sharply against him, with right-wingers demanding more decisive action to destroy Arafat's administration and opponents on the left calling for a return to negotiations. Sharon heads an increasingly precarious unity government, whose collapse would force an election in which the hot favorite to succeed Sharon is Benjamin Netanyahu, the former prime minister who has been stalking Sharon from the right...
...Netanyahu and others on the right may be tempted to seize on Sharon's offer of cease-fire talks as a sign of weakness or confusion, but Sharon has a cast-iron political alibi - his latest offer is precisely what the Bush administration has asked for. Washington had long urged Sharon to drop his "seven days of calm" requirement. And in Israeli politics, the express wishes of a pro-Israel White House remain a red line that's seldom crossed...
...micromanaging of the peace process. Clinton allowed himself to be drawn in as the mediator of first resort, which diminished the gravity of his own interventions - witness the fact that the President spent almost a full week at Wye River in 1998 cajoling Yasser Arafat and Benjamin Netanyahu into a relatively minor set of agreements. It's also quite possible to make the case that Camp David brought on the moment of crisis by forcing both sides to finally confront their most intractable differences. But that occurred not because of some impatience on the part of the Clinton administration...
...around Sharon. Israel's deteriorating security and economic situation has sent the prime minister's approval ratings plummeting to 48 percent from a high of around 70 percent. From the right, he's facing calls to reoccupy all of the West Bank and Gaza, with former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu looking to ride a wave of hawkish anger back into the top job. But from the left, he's facing increasingly assertive calls for Israel to end the occupation altogether. That call was echoed from the center this week when a group comprising 1,000 top echelon reserve officers began...
...Sharon is not responding to opinion polls; he's maneuvering to outflank his rivals. Benjamin Netanyahu continues to hover menacingly, ready to resume the mantle of Likud party leadership from Sharon as soon as the party holds a primary. So simply maintaining the present impasse almost certainly seals Sharon's fate at the hands of his own party faithful. Also, his restless foreign minister Shimon Peres - the Oslo architect increasingly desperate to restore political dialogue with the Palestinians - has been running his own talks with Ahmed Qurei in pursuit of a new peace formula...