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...points in the days after the Tel Aviv bombings. Sharon would be looking at a landslide victory if his Likud Party hadn't tarnished itself with corruption scandals (see box), which have boosted the protest vote and offered opposition parties a chance to increase their seats in the Knesset. Polls show Green Leaf, whose platform calls for the legalization of marijuana and which got only 34,000 votes in the last election, netting at least two seats. "Likud is corrupt and so is Labor," says Dan Goldenblatt, Green Leaf's deputy leader. "People are supporting us because they...
...security-conscious country, they're constantly questioned by police on the streets. Others complain that it takes them much longer to get through Tel Aviv airport security checks than their Jewish fellow citizens. And when they do elect the handful of Arabs who sit in the Knesset, Israeli Arab voters complain the legislators spend more time gabbing about their cousins in the West Bank and Gaza than they do focusing on domestic discrimination. The crackdown is also limiting freedom of expression by Palestinian media. A month ago, censors banned an Israeli Arab's documentary on last spring's fighting...
...BARRED. AZMI BISHARA, 46,Arab-Israeli political philosopher and member of the Knesset, from standing for re-election; in Jerusalem. Israel's attorney general accused Bishara and his party of opposing Israel's existence and backing terror groups. Bishara denies promoting Palestinian violence and is threatening to call a boycott of the Jan. 28 general elections if the Supreme Court doesn't lift...
...Human Development Report claim that "Israel's illegal occupation of Arab lands is one of the most pervasive obstacles to security and progress in the region," as if the failure of any sizable Arab nation to build a successful, diversified economy could be laid at the door of the Knesset. Nonetheless, the Bush Administration has not done all that it could to show that its approach to the Israel-Palestine question is evenhanded. A good example is the tale of the "Road Map to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israel-Palestinian Conflict," which the State Department prepared...
...Ariel Sharon's national unity government is a sign of stability in Israeli politics. Sharon's Defense Minister Benjamin ben-Eliezer took his Labor Party out of the unity government on Wednesday in a move that may precipitate fresh elections. Sharon faces a no-confidence vote in the Knesset next Monday, which will determine whether he'll manage to attract sufficient support to continue governing with a narrower coalition or be forced to call new elections for early next year...