Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into debate over the religious orientation of their state. Observed Hebrew University professor Ehud Sprinzak: "Most of the results have nothing to do with peace and security problems, but with a new sort of configuration inside Israel. The people are going back to God." Said Avraham Burg, a new Labor Deputy: "The results reflect a protest against the major blocs. The religious element is crystallizing into a third bloc, which will determine who will run Israel...
...Shamir finds the price too steep, he might possibly offer Labor a junior partnership in a rejiggered grand coalition. Many Labor leaders want no part of such a deal, but neither are they willing to seek a lesser coalition with the small parties. Declared Energy Minister Moshe Shahal: "It would be better to spend some time in opposition than yield to ultra-religious and ultra- nationalist demands." For Shimon Peres, either choice would be humiliating. After three campaigns in which he failed to deliver a Labor victory, pressure is growing on him to step aside as party leader...
...well have been the single-mindedness of Likud's campaign that helped carry the day. Labor talked vaguely about negotiating peace; Likud emphasized holding on to the territories. During one campaign trip this fall, 8,000 of the party faithful were bused to the Arab city of Nablus. There, standing before Joseph's tomb, Binyamin Begin, the son of former Prime Minister Menachem Begin and a rising star on the right, told the cheering crowd, "We will be here for eternity...
...last year -- but because the government's move was so obviously aimed at Solidarity, it threatened to set off a fresh round of political turmoil. The maneuver raised further doubts about whether the government would stick to the offer it made in August to Solidarity in exchange for ending labor unrest: "round-table" meetings during which the legalization of Solidarity could be discussed...
WORLD: Israel' s Likud, edging out Labor, courts the religious right for victory...