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...army days, they tell of operations carried out for Israel's special forces, Egoz and Shimshon, units with names that inspire admiration among almost all Israelis. Israel's politics--not they--have moved away from the ideals they fought for, the men argue. "We're not interested in protesting Sharon's plan," says Yair. "We're going to sabotage...
...monitoring the health reports out of Ramallah more avidly than Arafat's old foe Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. For perhaps the final time, the two lions of the Middle East conflict find their destinies entwined. Sharon has promised that if Arafat is able to return, Israel won't block him. But just as a potentially seismic shake-up of the Palestinian leadership was developing, there were deep rumblings on the Israeli side as well. Sharon won approval last week in Israel's parliament, the Knesset, for a bill scheduling the withdrawal of Israeli settlers from Gaza to begin next...
Arafat's failing health poses a dilemma for Sharon. Since he unveiled his disengagement plan late last year, Sharon has successfully sold it to the Israeli public and to the Bush Administration as an alternative to the peace process, allowing him to put off indefinitely negotiations over a final two-state settlement. As Sharon sees it, Arafat is a terrorist, and Israel won't negotiate with him. Israel, the argument continues, should pull out of Gaza and set up a more defensible position in the West Bank while waiting for Arafat to die and be replaced by someone Sharon...
Israel is facing a power struggle of its own. Sharon won Knesset approval for his Gaza withdrawal plan with the support of left-wing and Arab parties. But his right-wing bloc split. The crisis of legitimacy has shocking similarities to the internal divisions that shook Israel before the 1995 assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Some soldiers threaten not to carry out Sharon's orders to evacuate settlements, and their influential rabbis back them. The plan poses a dilemma for the religious Zionist movement at the heart of the settlement project. Its early rabbis decreed that Zionism...
...settlers view Sharon as a sellout. For years, he urged them to "grab hilltops" so that the land could never be given to the Palestinians in a peace deal. Now, says Arieh Eldad, a right-wing lawmaker, "Sharon is betraying everything he preached for so many years. He is betraying the people he sent to these hilltops, and they feel stabbed in the back. It may lead to civil war." While that's remote, a poll last month showed 7% of Israelis believed resisting the government by force of arms would be justified. Israeli intelligence fears an attack...