Word: likud
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...storm is brewing in all corners of the country.' BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, the leader of Israel's right-wing Likud opposition party, after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert survived three no-confidence votes brought against him in the Israeli parliament...
...former head of the Shin Bet, Ami Ayalon, who now serves in the Knesset, are angling to take the top spot in the Labor Party from Amir Peretz, Olmert's coalition partner and his disastrous and unpopular choice as defense minister. And at the head of the line is Likud Party chairman Benjamin Netanyahu, another former Prime Minister and an outspoken critic of this government and its readiness to counter the Iranian threat...
...Israel, but he's also reaching out to the Arab community and the Israeli mainstream. He throws extravagant parties for the members of Israel's high society and also builds low-income housing for recent immigrants. He bought an Israeli soccer team, Beitar, whose fans are mainly working-class Likud supporters known to chant "death to the Arabs" from the stands. He also owns a basketball team, Hapoel, that is usually cheered on by middle-class centrists, leftists and Arab Israelis. He has also donated money to an Arab soccer team...
...national-unity government of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, leader of the right-wing Likud bloc, and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, head of the Labor Party, is divided over nearly every major decision. Craven leaders, afraid to offend any large minority, conduct government by near paralysis. The present policy on the occupied territories rests on the hope that the civil order will eventually be restored and that the territories will return to the ''status quo,'' the endlessly uneasy but preferred state of affairs in a nation whose front door opens onto the abyss. For 21 years, Israel's leaders have been...
...Jimmy Carter at Camp David. That event was one of Israel's finer moments, but its full promise was never realized. Sadat paid for the deal with his life when he was assassinated in 1981, and Egypt was exiled from the Arab community for eight years. Begin, whose conservative Likud bloc ascended to power in 1977, was praised for his ! statesmanship, but he apparently saw the return of the Sinai as a final act, not as a prelude to negotiating the return of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Then in 1982 Israel invaded Lebanon in an attempt...