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...showing in the polls against Abbas’s dominant Fatah faction, which Arafat founded in the 1950s. The militant group has performed well in local elections over the past year, taking control of many important municipal councils. A poll released last Friday by an independent Palestinian firm, the Jerusalem Media and Communications Center, put Fatah and Hamas in a dead heat, with Fatah taking 32 percent of the vote and Hamas taking 30 percent.Blanc said that the political situation in the two weeks has calmed considerably, despite Hamas’s participation and the political fallout from Israeli Prime...
...suspended all contacts and negotiations; he did not consider us as partners. Now that he is gone, we have major concerns. First, regarding the Palestinian elections scheduled for this month: we hope that the situation and confusion in Israel will not prevent them from taking place, especially in East Jerusalem. Second, we are concerned that the competition to replace Sharon will lead to a hardening of Israel's posture, meaning more settlements, walls, incursions, assassinations and collective punishment. We Palestinians like to say that Israeli political developments are a purely domestic Israeli matter?but that isn't always true. Sharon...
...MICHAEL OREN Senior fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem and author of Six Days of War: He will leave two legacies, perhaps of equal importance: a military legacy of conventional audacity and innovative anti-terrorism, and a diplomatic legacy of flexibility and openness toward Palestinians. But absent Palestinian reciprocity, it was a policy of unilateralism. Sharon departed from the Israeli paradigm?historically characterized by capturing a chunk of land and demanding, for its return, negotiations and recognition of Israel as a legitimate state. He called for a viable Arab partner with whom to negotiate. The acceptance of that shift...
DENNIS ROSS Former U.S. envoy to the Middle East: Sharon was always governed by what he thought would make Israel strongest and most secure. He once said to me when we were talking about whether it was possible to reach agreement on the issues of Jerusalem, refugees and borders with the Palestinians, "We can't do what they want, and they can't do what we want." Did that mean that nothing would be done? No, because that would not serve Israel's interests. He knew that there...
...that probably would not include the prominent leader. “[Sharon] will not continue to be prime minister, but maybe he will be able to understand and to speak,” José Cohen, a neurosurgeon who has performed multiple operations on the prime minister, told the Jerusalem Post. Shlomo Mor-Yosef, the director of the Jerusalem hospital where Sharon is being treated, said that Sharon is slowly improving. “His condition is still critical but stable, and there is improvement in the CT picture of the brain,” Mor-Yosef said, according...