Sharon calls for unity but Mitzna rules out
joining government

Ariel Sharon crushed Israel's left Tuesday to become the first incumbent Israeli prime minister to win re-election since the 1980's, and immediately launched an all-out bid to form a unity government with the decimated Labor Party. An aide to Sharon said that the prime minister would not form a narrow right-wing government, and that if he failed to cobble together a unity coalition he would not hesitate to call new elections.
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`Alas, oh enemy'
The Arab press and intelligentsia are losing faith in Israel's desire for peace.

The e-mail sent to me by a Lebanese friend contained just four lines. "What a pity," he wrote, "that when I read Ha'aretz on the Internet I understand that we are again facing four years of no hope for peace. After all, you will again elect Ariel Sharon as prime minister. The Israelis are about to opt for occupation and oppression again."
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