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...Likud loyalist, former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has emerged as the top candidate to take on Sharon and leftist Labor Party leader Amir Peretz in next spring's election. Netanyahu, known as a hawk, told TIME he will campaign as a center-right candidate against the dovish Labor and Kadima, which an aide said Netanyahu plans to paint as "Labor in disguise." Under Sharon, "a de facto Palestinian state has been created in Gaza. Terrorist organizations became stronger," Netanyahu said, adding, "I believe there's a different road to peace...
...friend Ahmad Chalabi as a future Iraqi leader. "[Perle] steepled his hands just like Mr. Burns on The Simpsons and stared at me. Then the doorbell rang--beat ... beat ... beat--'Excellent. I'll introduce you to Bibi on the way out.'" (Neither Perle nor former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned calls for comment...
...Arabs of Hebron are also at great risk. Even under Palestinian self-rule, the site of the attempted massacre as well as all the areas of Jewish settlement will remain under exclusive Israeli control. Palestinian negotiators, however, resisted the lure of reopening this issue, mindful of the fact that Netanyahu will have a difficult time as it is in getting the Hebron agreement through his right-wing Cabinet. Seven of the 18 government ministers have said they will definitely vote against it, leaving Netanyahu a tiny safety margin in collecting the necessary majority...
...strange way, the near calamity last week brought the Israeli and Palestinian leaderships closer together. Netanyahu was quick to phone Arafat, to condemn Friedman's act in strong terms and wish the victims a swift recovery. Arafat avoided inflammatory language, calling the attack "a criminal attempt to torpedo the peace process." In Hebron, Israeli security forces coordinated closely with their Palestinian counterparts, who are already in position in the city but function quietly, without uniforms. When, just after the shooting, Hebron youths began to riot, Arafat's gendarmes fanned out, persuading them to desist. Said an officer...
That move provoked a strong reaction from Bill Clinton, generally seen in Israel as the most sympathetic of U.S. Presidents. For the first time, Clinton characterized the Jewish settlements as an "obstacle to peace," using terminology from the Reagan and Bush years that his Administration had dropped. For Netanyahu, says a senior State Department official, "it was a very strong wake-up call." Concerned that Israeli-Palestinian negotiations would peter out, or that violence would again erupt, Clinton dispatched Dennis Ross, the State Department's special Middle East coordinator, to Jerusalem with a mission to hammer away until Hebron...