Benjamin Netanyahu and Ariel Sharon are anything but friends. Enemies is more like it. So plainly there was something more on the menu than stir-fried noodles when the two dined together recently with their wives at a seaside Chinese restaurant in Tel Aviv. Last week the Prime Minister confirmed the rumors of an impending alliance of convenience when he announced that Sharon, the 70-year-old warhorse, is his new Foreign Minister.
For Sharon, who had served as Minister of Infrastructure, a post he will keep, the promotion completed a long rehabilitation following his resignation as Defense Minister after the 1982 Sabra and...
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