Word: likud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nationwide municipal elections were not about road improvements and garbage collection -- or so said Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. "Every vote for the Likud," he proclaimed at an election rally, "means that Israel wants no business with the murderers of our sons." When the votes were tallied last week, his right-wing Likud bloc had carried 44 of the 99 municipalities, up from 26 in 1983. Elated, Shamir claimed an ideological victory for his policies opposing both territorial compromise and talks with the Palestine Liberation Organization...
Nonetheless, the diplomatic flurry had other modest symbolic achievements: Arens met with President Hosni Mubarak, marking the first time since 1982 that an Egyptian leader has been willing to talk with a member of Israel's right- wing Likud bloc. That very act seemed to signal some thaw in the "cold peace" that prevails between the two countries. Shevardnadze's revival of the international-conference proposal skillfully shored up the Arab moderates who have long advocated it, and his presence in Cairo, the first visit by a Soviet Foreign Minister since 1975, invigorated long-dormant Soviet influence in Egypt...
...decide how much force is appropriate or acceptable in the face of international criticism. During the past year soldiers have been instructed to beat rioters; drop gravel on them from helicopters; fire tear gas, rubber bullets, plastic bullets. None of it has ended the uprising. And even some Likud members doubt the new measures will do better. "I don't think there is a lot of logic or common sense in shooting a boy when he's already finished throwing his stone and is running away," said Minister Without Portfolio Ehud Olmert...
...P.L.O. has now accepted Israel's right to exist, and the U.S. -- in its own contribution to the finale of 1988 -- has accepted that acceptance. But Israel's new government is steered by Likud's Yitzhak Shamir, who refuses to budge from one inch of the West Bank. If only his position on that key issue were a little more ambiguous. The recent diplomatic progress between the Arabs and the U.S., however welcome, could still end up being a sideshow to the tragedy of the principals passing in the night. As the P.L.O.'s leaders are becoming less rejectionist, Israel...
...Israel's battle to control a new and more complicated diplomatic environment. To cement his authority, Shamir refused to repeat the 1984 unity agreement under which each party in turn held the Prime Minister's chair. Reinforcing the government's shift to the right is the appointment of Likud's Moshe Arens, the hawkish former Ambassador to Washington, to replace Labor leader Shimon Peres as Foreign Minister in Shamir's 26-member Cabinet. Peres, under strong pressure from his party to ensure a government bailout of the troubled Histadrut labor federation and the kibbutz movement, the twin pillars of Labor...