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...Although the polls show Netanyahu way ahead of Barak, his party will now be forced to field Ariel Sharon as its candidate, or else turn to a leader of less national experience such as the rough-and-tumble grassroots organizer Silvan Shalom or the feisty party spokeswoman Limor Livnat. Either way, Barak clearly knows he has a better chance against any Likud candidate other than Netanyahu. Sharon certainly has higher negatives against his name than Netanyahu - no mean feat in light of the fact that the former prime minister is widely loathed even in his own party, after leading Likud...
...parliamentary election, Barak could still take the option of resigning himself, which would mean that a new election would be held only for the post of prime minister. That would ensure that he gets to run directly against Sharon or a younger Likud leader such as Silvan Shalom, rather than against the more popular Bibi Netanyahu. That's because the constitution requires that the prime ministerial candidate in such an election be a member of parliament, which Bibi isn't right...
Israeli military tactics--shooting at areas above the stomach, inflicting eye injuries and blocking hospitals in occupied East Jerusalem--have been condemned by respected international human rights groups including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Physicians for Human Rights and Israeli human rights groups such as B'tselem, Gush Shalom and Rabbis for Human Rights. These human rights groups have no political motive to attack Israel. They simply report the truth, and the truth is ugly when it comes to Israel's illegally sanctioned violation of human rights, which led to the United Nations' condemnation...
Gathered around the floodlit enclosure at midnight, they sing that he will make peace: ya'ase shalom. The words refer to God, but as 300 worshippers thump tambourines and clap their hands in the warm night, they have someone else in mind. It is the rabbi. He shuffles through the crowd, small and bowed. They touch him for his blessing. He is a tzaddik, a holy man, a saint. "I will clean the people," he mutters. His arm winging like a metronome, Rabbi Yaakov Ifargan slings candles into a brazier until the flame rises 20 ft. and wax sizzles onto...
...what, three minutes he's been a journalist - notified us that the Gore camp is thrilled with the bump Lieberman has given the campaign, which evidently is noticeable everywhere but in the polls. Larry King gushingly congratulated Lieberman's mother, Marcia (who looks fantastic at 85) signing off, "Shalom." (Joseph Lieberman - here's an interesting bit of political trivia - is apparently of the Jewish faith...