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Bi-bi!” These days it isn’t just the Likud faithful who like Netanyahu’s message. Israelis generally blame Palestinian leader Arafat for nearly 18 months of violence that has left 351 Israelis dead–as well as 1,195 Palestinians. At week’s end, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, under U.S. pressure, seemed prepared to meet with high-level Palestinian representatives to discuss a possible cease-fire. Nonetheless, many Israelis still feel that Sharon has not delivered on his promise that he–and only he–could “bring security.” One poll shows 73% are dissatisfied with Sharon’s government; two right-wing ministers quit last week amid predictions of early elections this year. Netanyahu, meanwhile, is wooing the Likud stalwarts with his plan to oust Arafat and impose strict Israeli control over the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Back from the political sidelines, he seems ready to pounce if Sharon’s coalition collapses–as it might this year–or when the government’s term expires in 2003. It would be a startling comeback for a man who rose to become Prime Minister at 45 in 1996, but was then trounced by Ehud Barak in the 1999 general election. Netanyahu built his reputation on polished speechmaking and free-market economics in a country where neither had ever been overpopular. But Netanyahu also came across as a demagogue who did not speak out when his supporters circulated a poster portraying then Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in a Nazi SS uniform. Netanyahu may or may not have changed his spots; the intifadeh, however, has undoubtedly made Israel more susceptible to his charms. A year ago, it was Sharon who won election with the promise of a hard hand. Even as the violence continued, many Israelis believed no one else was tough enough to handle the conflict. But in the past two months, as the bloodshed has worsened, Sharon’s popularity has slipped; his personal approval rating is down to 35%. In the 3,000-member Likud central committee, his party’s ruling body, the Prime Minister has the backing of just 630 members. Netanyahu has 1,680 in his pocket, according to an opinion poll published last week in an Israeli newspaper. In a series of conversations with TIME this month, Netanyahu has for the first time unveiled details of his strategy for ending the conflict with the Palestinians. His plan would make Sharon’s military operations in Ramallah and Gaza last week look like training exercises. Netanyahu insists that Arafat and the Palestinians have not accepted Israel’s right to exist, despite the 1993 peace accord signed by Arafat and Rabin that was supposed to lead to a negotiated end to the conflict. Arafat, he points out, still talks about Palestinian refugees’ “right of return” to family homes inside what is now Israel. Israelis believe that such immigration would mean the end of their nation as a Jewish state. “As long as the right of return is on the books, that means there’s no real acceptance of Israel,” Netanyahu says. If Arafat will not budge on the right of return and continues to sponsor terrorism against Israelis, Netanyahu says, Israel should invade the West Bank and Gaza. In this scenario, Arafat would be deported. His 35,000 paramilitary police would be stripped of their weapons, as would the Tanzim gunmen linked to his Fatah Party and, of course, the fundamentalists of Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Netanyahu says Israel would then pull its troops back to “a security border,” though not as far as the border of 1967\. Netanyahu would create a physical separation between Israelis and Palestinians. With a network of fences and defensive positions maintained by tanks, Israeli troops would prevent Palestinians from entering Israel. For some time, Netanyahu would continue operations inside Palestinian towns against Hamas. If Palestinian leaders emerge who are ready to give up on the right of return, says Netanyahu, he would be ready to sign a full peace agreement. Israel certainly could pull off that kind of military operation, but it would cost a lot of soldiers’ lives. But why would Netanyahu court the international condemnation that deporting Arafat would undoubtedly trigger? Because Netanyahu and Israelis generally now believe the leader of the Palestinian Authority is personally responsible for much of the terrorism against them. Arafat would probably continue to play freedom fighter abroad, but his influence would be trimmed. Moreover, exiling Arafat would demonstrate to the next generation of Palestinian leaders that they will pay a price for using violence against Israelis. “The people who come after Arafat need to know that this is what will happen to a regime that kills Israelis,” Netanyahu says. Who might such leaders be? “It really doesn’t matter,” he says, so long as they’re afraid of getting the same treatment he proposes for Arafat. He is also vague on the fate of Jewish settlements that might find themselves on the wrong side of his proposed “security separation line.” Sharon’s aides dismiss Netanyahu’s challenge. It’s easy, they say, for Netanyahu to talk tough. Unlike the current Prime Minister, he doesn’t have to answer to Washington and the international community whenever violence surges. Earlier this month, Sharon brushed off a question about his rival: “I’m not concerned with politics. The nation is in existential danger.” Still, some Likud legislators say the Prime Minister has described his predecessor privately as “that traitor”–for criticizing the government at a time when Sharon believes the country is under threat. Netanyahu’s image remains problematic. He concedes that during his tenure as Prime Minister he mishandled personal relations with adversaries and allies alike. His respected Finance Minister, Dan Meridor, said Netanyahu was untrustworthy; he tried to appoint a low-level legal crony as attorney general; and even before his election he had to admit to marital infidelities, after rumors circulated that a rival had a video of him in flagrante. Many Israelis say he thinks like an American–he studied in Boston and spends much time in the U.S. In 1999 he was implicated in a bribery scandal, though charges were never brought. All that makes him an easy target for Israel’s most popular comedian. Aided by a $700 gray, combed-over wig, Eli Jatspan portrays Netanyahu as an American with an obsession about money and little knowledge of Israel. “The Jewish people will not move from this land,” Jatspan says, mimicking Bibi. “New York is ours…” In days past, that sort of barb might have spurred Netanyahu to vitriolic attacks on the media, leftists, secular Jews. But he seems to have mellowed. At a television studio in Herzliya recently, Jatspan bumped into Netanyahu. “You do me very well,” the politician said. Netanyahu’s supporters say his record in office was good. “Bibi cut the budget, and he reduced terrorist attacks,” says Yuval Steinitz, a Likud parliamentarian. “It’s his personal behavior that cost him his job.” Besides, they contend, Netanyahu got a bad rap because he led the opposition when a right-winger assassinated Rabin in 1995–a time when Israel was deeply divided on the merits of the peace process. But Israel now is not what it was then. “People believed Pollyannaishly in the Oslo accords,” Netanyahu says. “I was accused of foiling the dream. 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