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Politics : War

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To: goldsnow who wrote (14309)5/3/2002 10:36:17 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER  Read Replies (3) of 23908
 
The corrida's over, Gold....


Friday, May 03, 2002 Iyyar 21, 5762


Will Bush be Sharon's defensive shield?

By Uzi Benziman


1. Stopgap measures


Like a drowning man at sea clinging to the edge of an oar extended to him by a lifeguard, Ariel Sharon is leaving for Washington two days from now for talks with President George W. Bush. The prime minister wants to reaffirm that he can in fact make it onto the lifeboat and that the American administration is really ready to pull him out of the water. But it's not clear if he knows to which shore his rescuer intends to sail.

All of Sharon's actions as prime minister have not amounted to much. The security policy he has pursued for the past year has not achieved the hoped-for results; the country's international standing, which was still intact when he took over from Ehud Barak, has deteriorated to an all-time low; the economy is in an ever-worsening crisis; national morale is under continuous strain and his coalition is constantly threatening to break apart.
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