A left-winger (R) shouts and faces off against a right-winger carrying a poster, which reads "Barak's partner", at a Tel Aviv interchange January 12, 2001. The poster shows a picture of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's picture pasted onto a scene of the October 12, 2000 lynching by a Palestinian crowd of two Israeli soldiers in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Israel's right-wing has accused Barak of not doing enough to quell a Palestinian uprising that erupted in late September after Ariel Sharon, his challenger in next months ballot, toured a politically-sensitive holy site in Jerusalem.

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