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More years in the desert: Israel chooses Sharon and stagnation. (Dispatches).(2003 election of Ariel Sharon's government)
American Prospect, The, March, 2003 by Gorenberg, Gershom
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JERUSALEM--I RAN INTO THE LABOR party politician at a bar mitzvah celebration, a few days after the election in which the Israeli left suffered its worst-ever defeat. "Celebration" is a euphemism. The bar mitzvah boy was the son of a left-wing activist; most of the guests belonged to the same political camp, and the happier ones looked merely morose. A circle of activists, think tankers and journalists formed around the poi, who held forth with enthusiastic glumness.
Labor wouldn't join victorious Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's government as junior partner-cum-lap dog ...
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