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The week's diplomatic roundelay was a heartening shift in the pattern of Middle East maneuvering, but will the renewed to-ing and fro-ing about peace yield concrete results? Not many diplomats were willing to venture a prediction. U.S. officials went only so far as to say that the...
From the outset, the showdown threatened to topple Israel's 14-month-old "national unity" government. The crisis began early in the week when Israeli Minister for Industry and Trade Ariel Sharon publicly accused Prime Minister Shimon Peres of "unparalleled cynicism" in his handling of secret Middle East peace negotiations...
Over the next 29 hours, intermediaries shuttled between the two men in an attempt to find a face-saving compromise that might keep the government intact. Finally, Sharon sent a letter to Peres, signed "with great respect," that while mentioning all six of the offending charges, stopped short of making...
The unseemly spat between Sharon and Peres did little to derail the Prime Minister's recent efforts to breathe life into the Middle East peace process. Peres put Sharon on notice that attacks on government policy will not be tolerated. He also cleared the way for continued talks with Jordan...
Why Peres chose last week to square off against Sharon remains a matter of speculation. Strident attacks by Sharon against Peres' peace initiatives are nothing new. Moreover, Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, the Likud leader who is scheduled to take over the prime ministership in October 1986, had warned that Sharon...