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...rampant indifference is that nobody expects the June 23 voting to really change anything. For some time, the opposition Labor Party has been running well ahead of Shamir's Likud in the polls; the latest surveys give the parties, respectively, 42 and 33 places in the 120-seat Knesset. But because neither organization has anything close to a majority, some kind of coalition is inevitable, as has always been the case in Israeli elections. And when the big two parties are grouped with their natural alignment partners, they are running neck and neck...
...atmosphere for Redemption. Other scholars reject Habad's active campaigning for the event. Followers of Rabbi Schach, a longtime rival of Schneerson's, believe the arrival of the Messiah is God's business, not man's. "When he comes, he comes," says Avraham Ravitz, a member of the Knesset. "It's crazy to force the Messiah to come by selling him like Coca-Cola, with jingles and stickers and billboards...
...been erected or expanded since the Bush Administration launched its peace initiative last March. According to Peace Now, Israel's leading movement for reconciliation with the Arabs, the Shamir government pumped $1.1 billion into settlement expansion in 1991, adding 13,650 new housing units. Two opposition members of the Knesset recently presented documents showing that over the past 18 months, the Housing Ministry, intent on sealing Israel's claim to the territories forever, added more than 18,000 new homes in the West Bank alone, at a cost of $1.5 billion...
...they will eat this winter, the people of the former Soviet Union must be wondering how they will be ruled. Postcommunist government is bound to be democratic. But democracy takes many forms, from the checks and balances of House, Senate and President in Washington to the checkmates of the Knesset in Israel. Russians and other ex- Soviets should consider a democratic variation on a theme from their own past: a constitutional monarchy headed by a restored czar...
...agreed to sacrifice -- or even discuss -- the status of Jerusalem and that there was no requirement for Israel to halt construction of new settlements in the territories or lift the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip by Israeli troops. "Trust me," Shamir told a gathering of Knesset members from the small rightist parties that hold his ruling Likud coalition together. "We won't withdraw one millimeter...