Chemi Shalev
By Chemi Shalev
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News Wooing Labor, Sharon Begins P.A. Talks
JERUSALEM — Under the shadow of the impending American war on Iraq, Prime Minister Sharon is expanding his talks with Palestinians and accelerating his drive for a “secular unity government,” with Labor in tow. Sharon and his advisers have met in recent weeks with a host of Palestinian leaders, including Arafat deputy Abu Mazen and…
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News Grim Sharon Faces Few Options After Historic Electoral Victory
JERUSALEM — The Likud Party’s overwhelming victory in this week’s Israeli elections may have given Prime Minister Sharon several options for building a new government, but his first choice, a broad coalition with Labor, appears to be achingly out of reach. Even as the election night returns were coming in, showing Sharon with a Knesset…
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News Prognosticators Turn to the ‘Day After’ a Sharon Win
JERUSALEM — Ariel Sharon will be reelected prime minister, the Likud will be the largest party and the right-wing bloc will hold an absolute majority in the next Knesset. This is the collective prognosis of all major public opinion polls in advance of Tuesday’s elections in Israel. At this point, any other result will constitute…
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News Labor Says It Won’t Play Ball
JERUSALEM — Desperate to turn the tide in the upcoming elections, Amram Mitzna and his Labor Party declared this week that they would refuse to join a national unity government headed by Ariel Sharon — under any circumstances. The end result, some observers are darkly predicting, could be the unimaginable: no government. Mitzna’s surprising and…
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News Likud Sweats As Scandal Tars Sharon
JERUSALEM — With Israel’s elections barely three weeks away, shell-shocked voters are experiencing a sort of whiplash, emotionally buffeted between horrific Palestinian terrorism and the ever-spreading revelations of corruption at the top — revelations that now point directly to Prime Minister Sharon. Last weekend, a double-bombing massacre of 22 Israelis and foreign workers in downtown…
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News Try as He Might, Sharon Can’t Dodge The Long Shadow of Corruption Probe
JERUSALEM — Although all the major public opinion polls continue to predict an overwhelming Likud victory in the elections January 28, the party’s leadership, as well as its rank and file, are more preoccupied with the daily dose of sordid revelations emanating from the police investigation of the corruption scandal. Instead of feverish preparation for…
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