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Nonetheless, moderate Islamic leaders have periodically enlisted Abraham as a bridge builder. In 1977 Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, announcing before the Israeli Knesset the brave initiative that would become the 1979 Camp David peace accords, invoked, "Abraham--peace be upon him--great-grandfather of the Arabs and the Jews." Sadat noted that Abraham had undertaken his great sacrifice "not outof weakness but through free will, prompted by an unshakable belief in the ideals that lend life a profound significance," clearly hoping that both sides would approach Arab-Israeli cohabitation in the same spirit. The accords went through, although this...
...forced that election. Eighteen months later, a crafty parliamentary trick by Barak allowed Sharon rather than the preferred Netanyahu to be the party's candidate in a new election - Netanyahu was precluded from standing under the rules governing that particular election because he was not a member of the Knesset at the time. (Barak believed his own chances were better against Sharon than against Netanyahu.) Since then, the robustly ambitious Netanyahu has kept up his campaign to reclaim what he considers his rightful place from Sharon, most recently in Monday's Central Committee vote...
...There's certainly little reason to believe the current operation will bring the two sides back to cease-fire negotiations any time soon. Most top Israeli security officials have expressed doubts that the current occupation will end the suicide bombings, and Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer told the Knesset on Tuesday, "Whoever thinks the IDF operations can stop terrorism is mistaken. Terrorism cannot be stopped with military maneuvers. The operations are intended merely to disrupt the terrorism and stop as many attacks as possible." He expressed the hope that the operation would lead to renewed political negotiations with the Palestinians...
...Washington sending Zinni back to the region, it makes sense for Sharon to offer at least an opening for negotiations. And therein lies the region's only hope. The alternative is continued escalation of the mutual bludgeoning as each side tries to bloody the other into submission. In the Knesset's cafeteria last week, Sharon asserted, "In the current situation, it's either them or us." But it is never only one side that suffers. It is always both...
...strategy to restore peace. The bid failed, but dovish Labor leaders are becoming more forthright in their criticisms - Deputy Defense Minister Dalia Rabin-Pelosoff recently lamented that the government had failed to take advantage of the "window of opportunity" for restoring dialogue created by Arafat's December speech. And Knesset speaker Avram Burg has accepted an invitation to address the Palestinian legislature in Ramallah next month - over the objections of Sharon, who nixed a similar initiative by President Moshe Katsav last December. Two weeks ago, Burg and Beilin led a delegation of Israeli leaders (mostly from the left-wing benches...