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Still, Arafat continued to commit himself, at least verbally, to peace. He wept when Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli Prime Minister who signed Oslo with him, was assassinated in 1995. He beamed in 1996 when he shook hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, even though the hawkish Israeli leader had sworn earlier never to take Arafat's hand...
...Likud party, Sharon faces political threats. Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reluctantly backed Sharon's disengagement bill in the Knesset but then said he'd resign in two weeks if Sharon didn't agree to put the entire plan to a national referendum. Briefly Netanyahu threatened to run against Sharon for the Prime Minister's job, though his aides backed off that remark...
...MIDDLE EAST Israel's security cabinet approved a compensation package that would give up to $500,000 per family to settlers who voluntarily leave the Gaza Strip and West Bank as part of the planned pullout next year. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon rejected a call by Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the "disengagement" policy to be put to a referendum, arguing that it was a ploy to delay its implementation...
...surrounded by 1.3 million Palestinians. In return for that, he won President Bush's support for some settlements to remain permanently in the West Bank. That led, in turn, to (grudging) endorsements from most leaders of Sharon's Likud Party, including the Prime Minister's main rival, Benjamin Netanyahu. The assassinations of Yassin and Rantisi were probably part of Sharon's campaign as well--they demonstrated the difference between a strategic withdrawal and a retreat...
...BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, Israeli Finance Minister, defending the government's free-market reforms aimed at tackling Israel's economic crisis