Word: perese
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What about the option of stepping aside and letting the more favored Shimon Peres represent his Labor party against Sharon?
Thre was some momentum behind that idea a while ago, although Peres has been saying all along he's not going to make himself available. Peres may be prepared to join Sharon in a national unity government, and then make his move when it faces a new election two years...
But many observers believe that the talks in the Sinai resort of Taba are mostly for the consumption of Israeli voters. The Palestinians are throwing Barak a lifeline, realizing that progress toward peace is his only hope of holding off the Sharon challenge - and they also don't want to...
Nobody knows, not even those who sit in the next office to Barak. He's isolated himself even within his own cabinet, and certainly in the parts of his own party where many would rather see Peres running. And even his own close advisers complain he hasn't consulted them...
"The Labor party is able to do that until 96 hours before voting starts. Peres, who was considering being candidate of the Meretz party until they decided to back Barak, has said he's not interested. He's already lost four elections, and he doesn't want to lose another...