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Barak again seeks Clinton's help in getting elected

Special to World Tribune.com
MIDDLE EAST NEWSLINE
Sunday, December 3, 2000

TEL AVIV — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak has launched his campaign for reelection with the help of U.S. President Bill Clinton.

Barak convened many of the advisers who helped him during the successful 1999 campaign for prime minister. They met in Barak's home on Saturday and discussed strategy as well as financing.

The meeting was regarded as the prelude for Barak's campaign for reelection.

But the key step, political sources said, will take place when Clinton's former campaign advisers arrive in Israel later this month.

The sources said Stanley Greenberg, Bob Shrum and James Carville will arrive in Israel around Dec. 16 to officially launch the campaign. The two were said to have held a decisive role in Barak's election and coordinated with Clinton during the campaign.

Carville and Greenberg will be responsible for much of the campaign financing as well as ensuring that Clinton will help Barak during his reelection effort.

Barak on Saturday made a campaign stop to Tira, an Arab town near Tel Aviv. The prime minister, in an unusual spurt of activity on the Jewish Sabbath, relayed a goodwill message to Muslims during the fast month of Ramadan.

The prime minister's first goal is to ensure that he is the undisputed candidate of the Labor Party. Barak has demanded that party primaries be held early next month -- giving his rival, parliamentary speaker Avraham Burg, little time to organize. Burg has not announced his candidacy.

Sunday, December 3, 2000


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