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...place to sleep. However, officials tell Time that none of their palm prints match those found on the plastic explosives packed into Reid's shoe - meaning that those operatives are still at large this holiday season. - By Bruce Crumley/Paris. With reporting by Helen Gibson/London ISRAEL Staying Power Benjamin Netanyahu's dream of an easy return to Israel's Prime Minister's mansion collapsed when incumbent Ariel Sharon thrashed him by 15% in a Likud leadership primary. Netanyahu vowed to work with Sharon in the Jan. 28 general election. Although his chances of retaining the Foreign Ministry after an anticipated Likud...
...Haifa University professor and friend of Mitzna. Sharon's response to the Jerusalem bus bomb that killed 11 Israelis last Thursday shows what Mitzna is up against. To cast himself as the moderate in this week's Likud primary, where he'll face off against Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Sharon ordered Israeli troops to close in on Bethlehem, the bomber's hometown. But the military operation was much more restrained than the massive invasions of the spring and summer. The 74-year-old Prime Minister is staking out the political center, because the hard-line Netanyahu and Mitzna have staked...
ISRAEL The Bickering Begins Ariel Sharon called an early general election for January after failing to secure a narrow, right-wing coalition. But the real contest for Prime Minister has already begun. Benjamin Netanyahu, Sharon's old nemesis and new Foreign Minister, wasted no time throwing his hat in, saying he wanted the top job because "the country is in dire straits and we have to get it out." His unsubtle implication: Sharon botched it. The two men publicly disagreed on the U.S.-authored "road map" to Israeli-Palestinian peace, which involves an immediate handover of cash owed the Palestinian...
...indicate that Sharon's party will easily win a new election, possibly by an even larger margin than it did in February 2001. Indeed, the most competitive race in the coming election cycle will not be between Sharon and ben-Eliezer but between Sharon and former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the Likud nomination...
...than ever before to make concessions if (a very big if) the Palestinians stop the violence and incitement, and negotiate in good faith. According to exit polls the day Sharon was elected, Israelis were twice as likely as two years earlier (when Ehud Barak defeated former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu) to make concessions on Jerusalem, a Palestinian state and settlements...