CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Washington will be watching today as Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon faces his worst political crisis to date. His coalition government appears to be falling apart over the prime minister's plan to pour millions of dollars into building more Jewish settlements. Jerrold Kessel joins us from the Knesset in Jerusalem where the action is set to take place. Jerrold, why should people here in the United States care about Prime Minister Sharon's domestic problems?</s>JERROLD KESSEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, of course, it will make a difference. It always makes a difference of who is in power in Israel, whether it's a right-wing government, a center-left government and so forth. But at the moment, we have this national coalition government that is headed by the right-wing, and Mr. Sharon really has been calling all of the shots. And if there will be an election, what will the outcome be? But we're not quite into that yet, because what we've got here really reminds us of what former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger once said about Israeli politics and Israeli foreign policy. He said, Israel has only a foreign policy, which is a domestic policy. In other words, what happens on the domestic front affects foreign policy. And you could say at this stage in this crisis, it's really about party political politics dictating everything. But in terms of affecting Israel's foreign policy, because the only foreign policy issue is on the agenda now, with the peacemaking, with the Palestinians set on the back burner. The only real foreign policy issue is the war on terror, the United States' war on terror, Israel's support for that, and the question of the United States' possible action against Iraq, where there is absolutely universal support</s>COSTELLO: All right, Jerrold Kessel, thank you.
Sharon's Coalition Government Appears to be Falling Apart