Word: likud
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...that Labor's Peres and Likud's Shamir have switched jobs (Peres becoming Foreign Minister, Shamir Prime Minister) there is apprehension. Are the good times over...
...accomplishments of the unity government--whether the economic austerity program or the withdrawal from Lebanon--were pushed by Labor over Likud's opposition. There is also a split over the West Bank. Likud lays claim to the area on principle; Labor does not. Likud wants to settle it as intensively and quickly as possible; Labor wants to limit settlement. The U.S. is particularly sensitive on the issue; no sooner was Shamir installed in his new job, than Washington reiterated its concern...
...anxiety is that now that Likud has the prime minister's portfolio, the relative calm in Israel and in American-Israeli relations may deteriorate...
...terrorist explosion and the military action in Lebanon undoubtedly played a part in settling the last-minute quarrel between the partners in Israel's national unity government. According to their rotation plan, Labor Party Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Foreign Minister Shamir, head of the Likud bloc, were scheduled to switch jobs last Tuesday. Indeed, Peres, who has led the country for the past 25 months, had submitted his resignation the previous week to President Chaim Herzog, and Shamir was poised to be sworn in for the next 25 months, until new elections scheduled for November 1988. At the last...
...center of the crisis was Yitzhak Moda'i, a volatile Likud leader whom Peres had forced to resign as Justice Minister last July. Moda'i had attacked Peres, saying the Prime Minister is "as untutored about law as he is about economics." But last week Shamir decided he wanted Moda'i in his Cabinet. Peres balked. As the new Foreign Minister, Peres was determined that he should be permitted to name a close aide as the new Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. This time Shamir balked...