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...independence served in the armed Jewish underground movement headed by Menachem Begin, who became the young American's mentor. After engineering careers in academia and industry, the bookish and brainy Arens entered politics in 1974, and was elected to the Knesset as a candidate of Begin's Likud...
Barely visible behind a lectern in Tel Aviv's Yad Eliyahu basketball arena, the diminutive Yitzhak Shamir struggled to make his voice heard. His Likud bloc must agree to share power with Labor, he pleaded, "to be united against the danger of a Palestinian state." But even that potent argument elicited little but jeers from hundreds of angry members of the right-wing Likud bloc's central committee. Cheers rang out only when Ariel Sharon, the big and assertive leader of the party's hard-liners, called for a narrow coalition without left-leaning Labor. "People in Labor...
...Shamir's proposal to form another national-unity government with the Labor Party. Shamir had vowed to give up his mandate to form a government if he lost. Later the same day, Labor's central committee, also divided over the wisdom of the party's casting its lot with Likud, ratified the coalition proposal. Seven weeks of wrangling followed inconclusive elections on Nov. 1, but the U.S. decision to open a dialogue with the Palestine Liberation Organization precipitated Israel's warring leaders into a second consecutive government of opposing ideologies. The two parties converged on one overriding fundamental: no dealing...
...government may be called national unity, but it will lean distinctly to the right. Both parties agreed to strict limits on the steps Israel would take toward peace. In a nine-page coalition contract, Likud and Labor flatly rejected recent proposals in P.L.O. chairman Yasser Arafat's peace campaign, saying the Israeli government "will not negotiate with the P.L.O." Instead, the pact reiterated Likud's long-standing call for direct talks with Israel's Arab neighbors, such as Jordan, and adopted Labor's offer to include non- P.L.O. Palestinians who live in the occupied territories. "We must do everything...
Israel's reaction has been confused by its domestic politics. Since the election Nov. 1, neither the Labor Party nor the Likud bloc has been able to muster a governing majority. Now, however, there is a greater chance that the two main groups will continue their paralytic unity coalition, if only to give cover to each other in handling this diplomatic bombshell. On one point they are already united: Israel will not alter its refusal to talk with the P.L.O. Both parties are bracing for a bumpy time with Washington. Ever the optimist, Peres suggested that the U.S. will soon...