haron is elected, even if it's only for a
hart period of time," Beilin said.

lection Attack
arak has challenged_ Sharon to a
eries of television debates similar to
hose in the U.S. presidential elec-
ions, but Sharon so far has dodged
he invitation.
Likud election strategists explain
rivately that they see no reason, given
their man's powerful lead in the polls,
o put themselves in a situation where
Sharon would be pressured to offer
specifics.
Increasingly desperate, Barak has
been urging audiences to look beyond
the outward trappings of the slick
Likud campaign. to see the unrepen-
tant hard-liner beneath.
Controversial pro-Barak election ads
have included images of dead bodies
from Sabra and Shatila and others
implying that Sharon's visit to the
Temple Mount in late September was
responsible for the Palestinian violence
and the bloodshed that has followed.
Sharon's strategists say the attacks
appear to be rolling off their candi-
date's back without damaging him.
Now 73, Sharon first made his repu-
tation in the 1950s as the father of a
commando unit that carried out dar-
ing and bloody reprisal raids against
Arab terrorists operating out of
Jordanian territory. He distinguished
himself as a brilliant strategist in the
Sinai campaigns of the 1967 and 1973
wars, but his penchant for innovation
and his unwillingness to follow orders
is believed to have cost him a chance_

to become army chief of staff.
The Lebanon war appeared to be
Sharon's downfall, as a government-
appointed committee found him indi-
rectly responsible for the Sabra and
Shatila massacres, and journalists later
exposed the extent to which he misled
Prime Minister Menachem Begin
about his real aims in Lebanon.
Sharon's behavior in government
often contradicted his hard-line repu-
tation, however.
As Begin's defense minister, he was
responsible for evacuating Jewish set-
tlements in the northern Sinai as part
of the 1979 peace treaty with Egypt.
As Netanyahu's foreign minister, he
refused to shake Arafat's hand, but he
helped negotiate the Wye River agree-
ment in October 1998.
In addition, since taking the Likud
helm in May 1999, Sharon has proven
himself an adept political strategist,
rebuilding the morale, organization
and finances of a party that
Netanyahu left in disarray.
In campaign statements, Sharon
speaks of his longing to bring such
popular moderates as Dan Meridor and
David Levy back to the Likud fold.
On Tuesday, the Orthodox Shas party
— the third largest bloc in the Knesset
— made the widely expected announce-
ment that it would back Sharon.
Just days earlier, however, Sharon
had told Shas chairman Eli Yishai,
"Don't hug me too tightly." Though he
needs Shas' support, Sharon cannot
afford to be seen as pandering to the
Orthodox community for fear of alien-
ating the large — and largely secular
— Russian immigrant constituency. ❑

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home. The Palestinians have a lot of
places to run to but we don't. We have a
country about the size of New Jersey," she
said. "I hope please God we can defend
ourselves. I pray every day we won't have
to do it but no one knows."
Greg Lewis, 50, a writer originally
from West Bloomfield and a former
teacher of English as a second lan-
guage at Wayne State University in
Detroit, said that in his Detroit years
he was very left wing, going so far as
to support the demonstrations of his
Palestinian students. In fact, he came
to Israel in order to teach English to
Palestinians; but after three years in
Israel, he says that the best thing the
Palestinians can have is a united
Jerusalem under Israeli control.

"What kind of government is
(Palestinian Authority Chairman
Yasser) Arafat going to have here?
What about practical things like water
and garbage collection? Dividing
Jerusalem won't work. It's just impossi-
ble," he said. "There won't be a divi-
sion here. I hold to the Tanach (Bible)
and there it says Jerusalem belongs to
the Jewish people."
"I think we are living in a very spe-
cial time," said Alan Cohen. "Our
grandparents could never imagine
themselves ever living in Jerusalem, let
alone visiting it, and we are here. True,
we are also living in a difficult time,
but when haven't Jews lived in difficult
times?"
Still, he said, he is optimistic about
the situation. He said Jews have a
secret weapon: the God of the Jewish
people. "Why do you think we are

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