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...address, Rabin made an effort to emphasize the importance of continuing the peace process, which is currently endangered by Likud's lead in the polls two months before the Israeli elections...
...running high a day after the attack seems to show that Israelis, at least for now, remain committed to the process." For an increasingly embattled Prime Minister Shimon Peres, the task will be to keep that support in the face of electoral challenges from hard-liner Benjamin Netanyahu. The Likud Party leader, who opposes the transfer of land to the Palestinians, is gaining on Peres in the polls as Israel approaches elections scheduled for May 29. "The conventional wisdom today is that if Sunday's bombing attacks are all that happens between now and when the elections are held, Israelis...
JERUSALEM: The war of words between Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres and opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu heated up, as Peres accused the Likud leader of sending secret messages to Syrian President Hafez Assad. The messages, Peres told the Knesset yesterday, say Israel will be ready to trade land for peace if Likud wins the parliamentary elections later this year. Netanyahu denied the charges, calling them "a big bluff." Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer reports: "This accusation dates back to Rabin, who also accused Netanyahu of sending such messages. And for two prime ministers to make that accusation does carry with...
Netanyahu added that "we are not going to stop the legitimate and forceful debate" about the peace process. It is a debate, however, that the assassination of Rabin has turned suddenly and sharply against him. Likud and Netanyahu had for months been building up a big lead in public-opinion polls over the Labor government. But the first postassassination poll, published Friday in the newspaper Yediot Aharonot, showed that Rabin's successor, acting Prime Minister Shimon Peres, would win 54% of the votes if an election were held today; Netanyahu would take only 23%. The poll also indicated that...
...TIME: If Likud comes to power, will it cause a problem...