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Likud's Yitzhak Shamir believes that Israel should include the West Bank captured from the Arabs in 1967 -- and still heavily populated by Arabs in 1990. Labor's Shimon Peres believes in trading land for peace. The territory traded would become part of a Palestinian "entity," a cryptogram that many...
Politics is often called the art of the possible. But Israel is rapidly transforming politics into the art of the improbable -- if not the downright ridiculous. Ever since the collapse of Israel's coalition government on March 15, Labor leader Shimon Peres has been scrambling to put together a new...
What made this latest twist so extraordinary is that the defection was manufactured by Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, 88, who heads the ultra-Orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch movement from his home in Brooklyn, N.Y., and has never been to Israel. On Sunday, Agudat Deputy Avraham Verdiger phoned the spiritual leader's office...
Either way, once Verdiger and fellow Deputy Eliezer Mizrahi learned that Schneerson continued to oppose any territorial concessions, a position favored by Labor and opposed by Likud, they backed away from their support of Peres. "It's a disgrace; it's completely disgusting," said Rabbi Allan Nadler of Montreal, who...
Whether Peres takes power or not, neither he nor anyone else seems capable of braking the new arms spiral. "The superpowers can't impose a settlement," says Martin Indyk, executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. "They can only encourage the parties to settle." Perhaps the only...