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renew a peace dialogue with Israel.
These developments have encour-
aged some outside players to start
thinking in terms of a final Israeli-
Palestinian peace deal. In an article in
the Washington Post last week, former
U.S. Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger argued that the internation-
ally backed road-map peace plan no
longer was relevant. What is needed,
Kissinger wrote, is a more detailed
blueprint for a comprehensive peace
agreement that the United States and
Europe should impose on the parties.
The Europeans, who want to hold
a Middle East peace conference, seem
to be thinking along similar lines.
The key probably lies with the Bush
administration, which so far remains
wedded to the road map's more incre-
mental approach.
In pursuing a stable coalition with
Labor, Sharon hopes to be able to
exploit the winds of change on the
Arab side and, at the same time, resist
international pressure on Israel to
make concessions Sharon feels are too
risky. The stronger and more stable
his government, Sharon reasons, the
better Israel's chances of making the
best of what 2005 has to offer.

Critical Vote

Still, Sharon needs his party's support
for an alliance with Labor; and he was
playing hardball ahead of the Central
Committee vote. He warned that he
would "punish" Cabinet ministers
who didn't do enough to bring out
pro-Sharon voters and warned Knesset
members that if he has to go to
national elections, there's no guarantee
they would be re-elected.
The strong-arm tactics seemed to
be working. Ahead of the vote, all the
Likud Cabinet ministers, including
Finance Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu, had lined up behind
Sharon; and the group of rebel
Knesset members who opposed
Sharon over his Gaza withdrawal plan
also seemed to be disintegrating.
At its height, the rejectionist group
numbered around 20 of the Likud's
40 Knesset members; this week, its
was down to fewer than 10.
It all could come down to voter
turnout. In last month's election of
Likud officers, over 90 percent of the
Central Committee voted. Similar fig-
ures this time around would seem to
assure a Sharon victory.
But it will be Chanukah, and in the
Prime Minister's Office the worry is
that personal holidays could conflict
with what Sharon sees as the national
interest.

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