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...were prepared to write his political obituary. The chairman had emerged from the ashes of too many other debacles, including the 1970 expulsion of his commandos from Jordan and the evacuation of 6,000 to 8,000 P.L.O. fighters from Beirut last year. "He has been down before," said Amnon Cohen of Jerusalem's Hebrew University. "Until I see a photo that he's dead, I won't be absolutely sure that he's finished." Still, with or without Arafat at its helm, the P.L.O. will be a very different organization after the bloodletting around Tripoli...
...Amnon Rubinstein Jerusalem...
...members who quit the Likud, Yitzhak Peretz and Amnon Linn, wanted to express their discontent with the government's policies, notably its handling of the economy and of recent disturbances on the occupied West Bank. To Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres, it seemed the right moment to deliver what he hoped would be a political coup de grace to Begin. Only two months ago, Begin had barely survived a 58-to-58 tie vote on a no-confidence motion. Peres found a new weapon in the government's latest statistics on inflation, which showed that in April alone...
...promptly became known, sent Israelis on a crazy buying spree. Laborites angrily charged that it was a shameless attempt to buy votes for which the country would have to pay later. Some middle-of-the-road opinion was also scandalized. "The Israeli government has suddenly evaporated," commented Columnist Amnon Dankner in Tel Aviv's daily Ha'aretz. "It is hovering over the earth like some pinkish cloud out of which there rains down on us every week Aridor's latest portion of manna." Nonetheless, the manna was fattening the average wage earner's buying power...
Political Parties in the West Bank Under the Hashemite Regime: 1950-1967--Prof. Amnon Cohen, York University, Rm. 510, Coolidge Hall...