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In 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...
In fact Shaath and his colleagues have been operating on that premise for months. Just about anything that could help Peres, they have done--or more exactly not done--avoiding rhetoric and protests that could stir up unrest. In response to terrorist attacks, Peres has for the past three months...
As the vote count starts, early reports predict only a modest turnout of Israel's Arab citizens; Shaath becomes nervous. "We need an 80% Israeli-Arab participation rate," he says heatedly ("we" refers to the Peres effort, and Shaath uses the word throughout the evening). To reach that goal the...
At 10 p.m. the polls close, and the next five minutes crawl by. Then polling experts project a narrow victory for Peres. "It could be as close as Kennedy and Nixon in 1960," says Shaath, who at the time was studying for a doctorate at the Wharton School of Finance...
Eighteen minutes after the polls' closing, with Peres' slim 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...