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...member of the conservative Likud Party who is now drifting toward the new party. "We had two beautiful visions of the future--one from the left and one from the right--and both collapsed." The left-wing Labor Party's vision, of negotiating a two-state settlement with the Palestinians, was rendered irrelevant by the failure of successive 1990s peace negotiations. Meanwhile, the vision of the old Likudniks--of a Greater Israel, stretching from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River--has been rendered just as untenable by the rapid growth of the Arab population in the Palestinian territories, which would...
Sharon's policy was arrogant, perversely brilliant. It shattered the old Middle East paradigm, leaping past the old negotiate-or-not logjam. It allowed for a Palestinian state, but absent a reliable negotiating partner, Israel would decide what that state would look like. Suddenly Sharon had positioned himself to the left, and also to the right, of the traditional Israeli parties. "It was a perfect reflection of the country's mood," says David Makovsky of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. "After 40 years of occupying the territories, people are sick and tired of it. They don't want...
...Olmert doesn't hold all the cards. The Palestinians, as ever, have the ability to influence the Israeli election through the use of violence--and through their own elections, scheduled for Jan. 25, which may increase the power of the radical Islamist group Hamas. Likud, led by the unloved but undeterred Benjamin Netanyahu, 56, has been the beneficiary of Palestinian mayhem in the past. In 1996, for example, Netanyahu overtook Shimon Peres in the race for Prime Minister after a series of terrorist acts by Hamas. "Bibi rises and falls with Hamas," Makovsky said...
...Hamas clearly seems to be rising. The conventional wisdom is that Hamas will finish a strong second to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' ruling Fatah party in the election. But Fatah seems in complete disarray, unhinged by corruption and incompetence. Its factions appear to be literally at war with one another. "It's Somalia in Gaza," a prominent Palestinian security official told TIME's Jamil Hamad. "There's a different government on every street corner." The official says he sent Abbas a memo last week begging him to call off the elections for fear of violence so severe that "there will...
...Burke, Virginia, U.S. Ramallah's Renaissance Re Your article " Palestine's Oasis Of Artistic Freedom," about the cultural revival in the West Bank city of Ramallah [Dec. 19]: Maybe the world will begin to understand that before the so-called Israeli occupation can end, the terrorist occupation of the Palestinian territories must cease. When Hamas, Islamic Jihad and al-Aqsa are stopped, then Palestinians will be able to live free. Israel is not preventing the Palestinians from having the freedom to express themselves through art and culture. The real oppressors are the ignorant terrorists who think calling themselves politicians...