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...delay found himself cornered, however. Forced to choose between accepting U.S. Secretary of State James Baker's compromise plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in Cairo and risking the collapse of his national unity government, Shamir stuck to his ideology. After a dramatic showdown on the floor of the Knesset, he became the first Israeli leader ever to be evicted from office when Labor Party leader Shimon Peres pushed through a vote of no confidence by a margin...
...scum of the earth," he said."Reverend [Louis] Farrakhan and Rabbi [Meir]Kahane. Both have the right to speak. If Farrakhancame he'd be allowed to speak; if Kahane camethey'd break up the meeting," said Koch, referringrespectively to the Muslim nationalist accused ofanti-semitism and the Israeli Knesset member whohas taken strong anti-Palestinian positions...
...Knesset member Amnon Rubinstein has acknowledged, "In a democratic system you do not harm and you do not punish unless you first forewarn citizens. This amendment breaches this important rule...
Professor Donna Arzt of Syracuse University has studied in some detail the resemblance between the bill currently before the Knesset and the recently enacted "Disclosure of Foreign Funding Act" in South Africa...
Professor Arzt concludes that the amendment now facing the Knesset "would place Israel in a camp with the country most widely known for its manipulative uses of law and the legal system to repress civil liberties and civil rights...