On December 9, 2000 (November 14, 2000 lunar calendar), Israel's Barak announced his resignation. Against the backdrop of the continued intensification of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the start of preparations for early elections by Israeli parties, Israeli Prime Minister Barak suddenly announced his resignation on the evening of the 9th. On the morning of the 10th, Barak formally submitted his resignation to President Katsav. Barak's move surprised one of his rivals, Likud leader Sharon, because he did not expect Barak to make such a "strange move". Sharon is also planning an early election, and the sooner the better. In this way, he can compete with former Prime Minister Netanyahu in the party election, and also hope to defeat Barak in the early election and form a right-wing coalition government. According to Israeli law, non-parliamentarians are not eligible to run for prime minister. Last May, Netanyahu retired from politics after losing to Barak in the general election, and simultaneously resigned as chairperson of the Likud Party and was replaced by Sharon. On the day Barak announced his resignation, Labour Party cadres gathered at his residence in northern Tel Aviv in order to find a panacea for the political crisis. Since the Israeli-Palestinian conflict broke out on September 28, small right-wing parties such as the Shas Party have withdrawn from the ruling coalition in the cabinet, causing Barak's government to lose more than half of the support in the 120-seat parliament. Barak has been hampered by parliamentary votes, making it difficult to determine internal and external policies, especially negotiations with the Palestinians. At the same time, the right-wing Likud group led by Sharon has repeatedly launched attacks, claiming that Barak's soft and hard measures are inappropriate, and vowed to overthrow Barak's cabinet and call an early general election. On November 28, the Israeli parliament passed the motion proposed by the Likud group, deciding to dissolve the parliament and call an early general election. Due to the situation, Barak expressed that the Labor Party is willing to form a cabinet with the Likud group to establish an emergency coalition government of a transitional nature before the general election. The Likud group expressed its agreement in principle to form a government with the Labor Party, but the agreement reached between Barak and the Palestinians must be agreed by Sharon. On December 4, the Knesset passed a motion put forward by the Likud Party that neither Prime Minister Ehud Barak's government nor the transitional government before the early election has the right to sign any "international agreement" due to the lack of a parliamentary majority. This means that Barak will have difficulty reaching a peace agreement with the Palestinians before the early election. But if Barak wants to save his government with only a parliamentary minority support, he must reach a peace agreement with the Palestinians approved by the Knesset before the election. To this end, Barak immediately proposed a phased solution after the early election in the Knesset. On the basis of a two-to-three-year extension to resolve the two major problems of the status of Jerusalem and Palestinian refugees, Israel will recognize the Palestinian state and increase the area of the West Bank returned to the Palestinians by 10%. But this part of the solution was immediately rejected by the Palestinian side. In the process of major changes in Israel's political situation, all Palestinian factions unanimously expressed their intention to continue the uprising and struggle. The armed resistance of the Palestinian side has invited further military pressure from Israel, which has turned the Palestinian-Israeli conflict into an endless "guerrilla war" and "street fighting." This unprecedented large-scale bloodshed has caused more than 300 Palestinian deaths and about 20,000 wounded; dozens of Israelis have died and nearly 100 others have been injured. The unprecedented deterioration of Palestinian-Israeli relations and the regional security situation has prompted a change in Israeli public opinion. Most people have begun to doubt Barak's peace negotiation policy and support right-wing representatives Netanyahu and Sharon. Some recent Israeli opinion polls show that both Sharon and Netanyahu's approval ratings are higher than Barak's, especially Netanyahu's approval rating is even higher than Barak's by nearly 20 percentage points. Arab parties are extremely concerned about the direction of Israeli politics and have commented on Barak's announcement of resignation. The Palestinian National Authority regards this matter as Israel's internal affairs, and President Arafat said this is not surprising.