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...from the political center and the left in Israel. The terms and boundaries of such separation may vary in different proposals, but the shared premise is that Israel can't sustain the cost of maintaining the current pattern of occupation. The peace plan currently being touted by foreign minister Shimon Peres is based on the principle of Israeli withdrawal to its 1967 borders - and a Saudi proposal for normalization of Arab relations with Israel on that basis has been positively received by Washington...
...reserve officers' call is echoed by a peace plan being touted by Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres and Arafat aide Ahmed Kurei, as well as of various proposals emanating from the European Union and the Arab world. U.S. officials have been particularly interested in a proposal by Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah to offer Israel full normalization of relations with the Arab world in exchange for its withdrawal to the pre-1967 borders. Sharon has been conspicuously silent on actual peace plans, confining his diplomatic efforts to pressing Washington to add Yasser Arafat to its "axis of evil" column...
...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...
...followers, too, who are openly defying their leader, taking Palestinian fate into their own hands along with Kalashnikovs and belts of explosives. They pour scorn on Arafat's periodic cease-fire calls, asking what Palestinians will get in return except for a continuation of the occupation. Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres has repeatedly warned that the Palestinians have no incentive to stop fighting if they are offered no political process for pursuing an end to the occupation. But nobody listens to Peres anymore...
...Middle East worried about the Bush administration cutting ties. Israeli doves are increasingly alarmed at the prospect of Sharon getting carte blanche to pursue a strategy they believe will void all prospect of Israel living at peace with its neighbors for the foreseeable future. Even foreign minister Shimon Peres is reported to have recently lamented privately that he's unable to criticize Sharon's actions in the face of silence from the U.S. Previously, Israel could rely on Washington to dab at the brakes when it crossed a red line. The prospect of Sharon facing neither domestic nor international political...