Word: statehooders
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...Ariel Sharon set to visit Washington for talks this week with President Bush, the Middle East crisis is on the verge of a new round of diplomatic struggle. Israeli officials tell TIME that Sharon, hoping to pre-empt U.S. and Saudi initiatives, will make a new concession on Palestinian statehood, conditioned on "serious, concrete and continued steps against terrorism" by Arafat. Israeli officials say the concession will involve a new map for a potential Palestinian state. U.S. officials say they won't know the details until they meet Sharon face to face, but they expect much. Says a senior...
...than at the right-wing end of the country's political spectrum. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was dealt a cruel political blow by his own party early on Monday, when the Likud Central Committee rejected his pleas to consider the diplomatic consequences and voted almost unanimously to reject Palestinian statehood in the West Bank. Although the vote simply restated longstanding Likud policy, it was a calculated bid by former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to unseat Sharon. Netanyahu's calculation: The vote will make Sharon's job more difficult because he has to deal with the political and diplomatic reality that...
...nonetheless forced, as prime minister, to observe it - by withdrawing from Hebron, for example - while Sharon snapped at his heels from the right. It is an unwritten rule of Israeli politics that no prime minister can afford to defy Washington for any length of time, and Palestinian statehood in the West Bank and Gaza is no longer even up for discussion in U.S. foreign policy - never mind in the Arab world where Israel must ultimately seek peace partners...
...Still, the terms of Palestinian statehood are less likely to be determined at a Likud party conference than among the international players looking to resolve the conflict. And some Israeli commentators even suggested that the Likud vote could strengthen Sharon's hand by painting him as a moderate before the international community, and also deepening his appeal among Israeli voters by making Netanyahu look reckless. The hard-core Likud base alone, after all, is not enough to get anyone voted prime minister in the election that's scheduled for next year...
...Ariel Sharon set to visit Washington for talks this week with President Bush, the Middle East crisis is on the verge of a new round of diplomatic struggle. Israeli officials tell Time that Sharon, hoping to pre-empt U.S. and Saudi initiatives, will make a new concession on Palestinian statehood, conditioned on "serious, concrete and continued steps against terrorism" by Arafat. Israeli officials say the concession will involve a new map for a potential Palestinian state. U.S. officials say they won't know the details until they meet Sharon face to face, but they expect much. Says a senior...