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he also knows that the veiled threat to
leave the party if he loses is his
strongest weapon: Many Central
Committee members may support him
simply to prevent a split in the party,
which could end up with Likud losing
power in the next national elections.
Ma'ariv columnist Ben Caspit
summed up the situation: "Sharon," he
wrote, "already has one leg outside the
Likud, but the other leg is still in and
kicking."
In a joint letter to each of the 3,000
Central Committee members,
Netanyahu and Landau describe
Sharon as "a subcontractor for the poli-
cies of the left," and say that if he's
going to leave the party, it's better that
he do so sooner rather than later. The
greater the lag between the time
Sharon founds a new party and the
next elections, the more the new party
will lose its luster, they argue.
Insiders say about 900 of the com-
mittee members will vote against
Sharon on any issue, and that another
900 or so will support him. The battle
is over the remaining 1,200.
Yitzhak Regev, a leading Sharon
activist and influential member of the
Central Committee, says turnout will
be key. "If there is a high turnout, as I
am sure there will be, Sharon will not
only beat Netanyahu, he will destroy
him," Regev said.
"The media have placed the issue at
the top of the national agenda.
Everybody understands its importance,
and they will all turn out for the vote."
But it's more complicated than that
for Sharon. One of his chief concerns
is that even if he wins in the Central
Committee and goes on to win the
party primary and the next general
election as Likud leader, he is likely to
have an even more hawkish and oppo-
sitional Likud faction than the one that
has constantly tried to tie his hands.
He knows that could make his job as
prime minister impossible — and he
also knows polls indicate he would win
the premiership as leader of a centrist
party, with or without an electoral
alliance with left-leaning Labor or cen-
trist Shinui.
These two factors could well lead
him to break away from Likud at a
later date, even if he wins the Central
Committee vote.
If Sharon loses, there's no question:
Pundits unanimously predict that he'll
argue that the Likud has changed, that
it's no longer the same party he found-
ed and that, since it clearly doesn't
want him, he will leave to head a new
party against Netanyahu's more hawk-
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