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Selling Himself

Israel's Sharon presents kinder,
gentler image — but few specifics.

DAVID LANDAU
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

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jingle, released on Monday, sings of
the peace he will bring.
The key to his success, according to
friend and foe like, is the vagueness of
his platform.
"I have a plan that would bring
peace with securit y, " Sharon proclaims
at every public appearance. But like
President Nixon with his "secret plan"
to end the Vietnam War, Sharon resists
pressure to spell out his plans in detail.
"The violence of the intifada can be

nce reviled as a dangerous
warmonger, Likud Party
leader Ariel Sharon has
amassed a huge lead in pub-
lic opinion polls before Israel's Feb. 6
elections on the strength of a remark-
able image makeover.
Two decades ago, Sharon was
forced to resign as
defense minister for not
preventing Israel's
Lebanese Christian allies
from massacring
Palestinians in the Sabra
and Shatila refugee
camps. Now, he is run-
ning as a kindly, avuncu-
lar figure, tough but sen-
sitive, who will be more
effective as a peacemaker
than incumbent Prime
Minister Ehud Barak.
Ariel Sharon and Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert tour
The apparent transfor-
the Machane Yehuda oudoor market on Monday.
mation is galling to many
Israeli leftists, who have
ended without escalating the warfare,"
no problem accepting that Palestinian
Sharon asserts, referring to Palestinian
Authority President Yasser Arafat has
violence against Israel that has contin-
matured from terrorist to statesman
ued for more than three months.
but continue to demonize Sharon for
According to a report last week in
leading Israel into the Lebanon War in
the Jerusalem Post, Sharon's blueprint
1982.
for peace remains the outline he pre-
The mere suggestion this fall that
sented to the Palestinians in 1999,
Barak would invite Sharon into a
when he was foreign minister under
unity government sparked a wave of
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
hand-wringing among Israelis — and
That plan — under which Israel
international observers — who por-
refused to share Jerusalem, uproot
trayed such a union as a death knell
Jewish settlements or withdraw from
for the peace process.
the Jordan Valley — includes far fewer
Right-wing and centrist Israelis,
Israeli concessions than those the
however, appear less troubled by
Palestinians now reject as insufficient
Sharon's past, propelling him to leads
from Barak.
of 20 to 30 percentage points over
Sharon has ridiculed Barak's efforts
Barak in opinion polls.
to sign a final peace deal with the
Palestinians, believing that the most
Close To The Chest
that can be achieved at this stage is a
long-term non-belligerency agreement.
Perhaps most remarkable — and most
Justice Minister Yossi Beilin
telling about the depth of popular dis-
described the Sharon plan to the
satisfaction with Barak — is the fact
Jerusalem Post as "a good plan that I
that Sharon has amassed such support
would back — if Israel was negotiating
while revealing so little of what he
with itself." People who read Sharon's
would do in office.
1999 plan "will know what a tragedy it
"Only Sharon Will Bring Peace" is
would be if a dangerous man like
his campaign slogan. His campaign

