Word: likud
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...economy. The answers of the Likud and Labor are the same, more or less. In the Western countries, there is a classic answer for inflation: unemployment. We don't accept it, we don't tolerate it. Therefore we have to look for other ways, and we say [there has to be] a social contract. There must be a national agreement among all the main factors of the economy-workers, industrialists and government-to freeze prices, wages and taxes. It is the only way to bring about a decline of the rate of inflation without having unemployment...
...Lebanon. There will not be a quick withdrawal from Lebanon. We are trying to create conditions that will enable us one day to pull out our forces: by strengthening the Lebanese Army, by reaching agreements with local groups of the population. The Likud does not want to stay in Lebanon. But for the moment, the Lebanese government does not have anything to offer. It does not even control Beirut...
...time there were two Israels, and the second included the suburbs and development towns where the new immigrants from Arab countries lived. Now even this definition has disappeared. The feeling of belonging to Israeli society is now much more general. I think it is a great accomplishment of the Likud...
...relations with the U.S. One of the arguments in 1977 was that if the Likud came to power there would be a war with the Arab countries because of the [occupied] territories and then relations with the U.S. and with all the Western world would become terrible...
...Minister Yitzhak Shamir's 19-man Cabinet. Chief of Staff Moshe Levy is a Sephardic Jew, as is Israel Kesar, secretary-general of the 1.1 million-member General Federation of Labor. The second in command of both major political parties, Yitzhak Navon of Labor and David Levy of Likud, are Sephardim of Moroccan descent...