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To: Andy Thomas who wrote (7848)	11/1/2001 4:47:52 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 23908

Jewish humor on the prospect of a Palestinian state: Sharon, Likud to clash over Palestinian state By Gil Hoffman November, 01 2001 ------------------------------------------------ JERUSALEM (November 1) - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will face off against his opponents in the Likud tonight when Internal Security Minister Uzi Landau convenes the party's bureau at the Likud's Tel Aviv headquarters. Several groups in the Likud who oppose the establishment of a Palestinian state intend to use the bureau to force Sharon to explain his expressions of support for a Palestinian state. It will be the first time Sharon addresses the 430-member bureau since his election. The groups decided this week in a meeting at Likud headquarters to coordinate their efforts in a new committee called the Forum for the Maintenance of Likud Values. The forum will bring to the bureau its petition, which states that forming a Palestinian state is contrary to the Likud's constitution and platform. More than 1,000 Likud central committee members have signed the petition, and the forum will ask the party's ministers and MKs to sign it or risk alienating their constituency. "The prime minister, the ministers, and the MKs of the Likud were elected to represent the charter of the Likud and the people of the Likud, which means they must say no to a Palestinian state," said Eliyahu Kornfeld, head of the Likud ideological group Darkecha Darkeinu. "The government today does not represent our ideology. There's a feeling that the prime minister no longer represents the party that elected him." Sharon adviser Zalman Shoval presented the prime minister's plan for a Palestinian state with territorial contiguity to the United States last week, but Sharon has never outlined his plan for the party. If the forum convenes the Likud central committee in two weeks, it is likely a resolution will pass prohibiting the prime minister from proceeding with such a plan. The prime minister told National Union MKs on Monday "the Palestinian state issue is not currently relevant," but Foreign Minister Shimon Peres's plans to unveil a new diplomatic initiative and meet with Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat tomorrow have renewed anxiety on the Right. "If Sharon thinks Arafat is bin Laden, why is he letting Shimon Peres meet with him?" asked a representative of the Likud Founders Committee. The forum was united in emphasizing its efforts are unconnected with Sharon's Likud rival, former prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, but there was disagreement over whether to characterize themselves as "anti-Sharon." Netanyahu will address the British House of Commons this afternoon as an expert on terror. Zo Artzeinu founder Moshe Feiglin, who claims to have signed up thousands of new Likud voters, came up with the idea for the forum and its name. Feiglin, who was convicted of sedition in 1997, issued a sharp attack against Sharon. "The Likud has become a cheap imitation of the yes-men in Iraq who sit around Saddam Hussein's table," Feiglin said. "We are here today not just to safeguard the land of Israel, but to safeguard the Likud." jpost.com It's LONG OVERDUE for the FBI to put those Likud Bioterrorists on its 10+430 Most Wanted List!!!