Word: knesset
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...Barak is certainly leading the party in the coalition negotiations, but it's not clear whether he'll stick around for the unity government. Of course, even if he quits the Labor leadership and resigns as a member of the Knesset, there's still nothing stopping him accepting Sharon's offer to serve as minister of defense - a portfolio he currently occupies alongside being prime minister...
...possible that the administration of Sharon will serve as a cooling-off period for both sides. Although his own Likud party holds relatively few seats in the fractured Knesset--the Israeli Parliament--Sharon is more likely to be able to restrain the virulent right-wing of Israeli politics than his defeated Labor-party adversary Ehud Barak. Given the difficulty of putting together a governing coalition, Sharon's government, like Barak, may be short-lived...
...Before Sharon is able to move at all, he'll have to form a government - no mean feat at the best of times in Israel's fractious parliament, and with the added disadvantage that the balance of seats in the Knesset remains unchanged (Tuesday's election is solely to select a prime minister). Tabulate the combined representation of all the parties supporting Sharon, and he's still short of a majority. He may be forced to spend up to two months cobbling together a unity coalition, or else he'll have to opt to lead a minority government that would...
...Israeli strategy toward punishing Palestinian leaders rather than the entire Palestinian population, as a way of isolating them from their own supporters. And sending positive messages to the Palestinians, as well as the neighboring Arab regimes and Washington, would even help him consolidate his grip on power in the Knesset. After all, his enemies are painting him as a warmonger; his approach will be to cloak himself in the mantle of realistic peacemaker...
...terrorist group responsible. But they also mistook a Moroccan waiter for the terrorist group's kingpin and assassinated him in Norway in 1973. Last week Prime Minister Barak, under pressure to halt the violence before Israel's Feb. 6 elections, defended the current hits in a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. Committee members say Barak told them, "We're at war. A state facing a terrorist threat has to wage a struggle." Palestinian Cabinet minister Hassan Assfour calls it the "true criminal face of the Israeli government...