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...Olmert will likely align Kadima with Labor (which won 20 seats) and either the Shas party of the Orthodox Sephardic Jews (12 seats) or the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu (11 seats), a voice for the country's 900,000 Russian immigrants. Several of the smaller fringe parties, such as the Pensioners' Party, may also join the coalition. All these groupings have their own agendas. Labor, for example, says it wants a negotiated peace with the Palestinians. Labor leader Amir Peretz said he is in favor of dismantling Jewish settlements in the West Bank. But this will cause pain among those...
...four-year term, political analysts say. A wobbly, Kadima-led government could end up being pulled in a dozen opposing directions by its future coalition partners. These will almost certainly include Labor (with 20 Knesset seats) and the Sephardic Orthodox party Shas (with 13) and possibly the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party (also with 13) representing the Russian-speaking immigrants around the country...
...proposes a new frontier between Israel and Palestine, forcing some 500,000 Arabs, who are now citizens of Israel, inside the Palestinian territories. Lieberman brushes aside the charges leveled against him. "I?m pragmatic, that?s all," retorts Lieberman, a wide-faced man with a cropped beard, whose party, Yisrael Beiteinu ("Israel, Our Home"), is expected to scoop up at least 11 seats, mainly from Israel?s 900,000 Russian immigrants. "I don?t believe in co-existence," he says. "We can be neighbors, but we can?t live in one home...
...years of fighting on Israel's front lines gave him inimitable clout to stand up to the minority religious-nationalist movement that has long maintained a stranglehold on national policy. "I cannot see anyone today who can build a coalition to remove settlements as Sharon could do," says Yisrael Harel, former chairman of the Yesha settlers' council...
...fundamentalists and other militant factions have vowed to break any deal that delivers less than an independent Palestinian state now, this instant. Fanatical settlers and other right-wing Jews swear never to give up one inch of the West Bank soil that is part of what they call Eretz Yisrael, the land God gave to the Jews. The pressure from enemies only complicates an already knotty negotiation. When the two were alone with President Clinton just before the ceremony in Washington, Rabin recalls, ''Arafat and I didn't exchange anything, except I told him it's going to be very...