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...national vote) set off widespread indignation. In a rare public comment, former Prime Minister Menachem Begin declared, "My friends and I have nothing in common with the man." An aide to Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir insisted that Kahane was "not acceptable under any circumstances" in a Likud-led government. While Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek called for a law that would make the espousal of racist views illegal, Israel's state-owned radio kept Kahane's more inflammatory statements...
...peace" conference as important in its way for the future of Israel as any that had gone before. Seated at opposite sides of a table decorated with bouquets of daisies at Jerusalem's King David Hotel last week were Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, the head of the Likud Party, and his political rival, Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres. The two men smiled, shook hands and joked with each other. But the outward congeniality belied the serious political deadlock that had brought them together. Nine days before, they had battled to a virtual draw in parliamentary elections. With neither party...
...country's ability to solve its most pressing problems: how to cool 400% inflation, whether to withdraw its troops from southern Lebanon, what to do about the occupied West Bank, how best to achieve an Arab-Israeli peace. Any new government, whether cobbled together by Labor or by Likud, promises to be a rickety, splintered structure that could collapse at any moment. "A divided nation remains divided," editorialized the Jerusalem Post. Said Ma'ariv, a Tel Aviv daily: "The greatest disappointment was that neither of the two major political blocs will be able to put together a lasting...
...indisputable winners last week were some of the country's small parties, which tend to have a religious or ideological basis. They picked up a total of 35 seats, ten more than in 1981. Tehiya, a rightist offshoot of Likud, fared best with five seats, while Yahad, a party founded last March by the popular Ezer Weizman, who resigned as Begin's Defense Minister in 1980, won three. The Kach movement, an ultranationalist group headed by Brooklyn-born Rabbi Meir Kahane, who retains his U.S. citizenship,* won its first seat. "In my first [Knesset] speech, I am going...
Barely had the votes been counted than Labor and Likud leaders began bargaining for support from the smaller parties. Labor could count on the centrist Shinui party and the leftist Citizens' Rights Movement, with three seats each, to reach 50. The Likud bloc knew it would be strengthened not only by Tehiya's five seats but by the two won by Morasha, a hard-line religious party, for a total of 48. Two predominantly Arab parties, the Communist Hadash and the new Jewish-Arab Progressive List for Peace, do not figure in any calculations, since neither Labor...