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Some 80 miles to the north, alert security men watch the crowd gathered on a basketball court in the town of Shfaram. Shimon Peres sits motionless through the introductory speeches, hardly understanding a word since they are all in Arabic. Peres knows that while the Arab vote will account for...
The fringe appeal is hardly surprising. Israel's so-called government of national unity is widely ridiculed as a mismatch that has locked Israel into a debilitating status quo. Both Labor's Shimon Peres and Likud's Yitzhak Shamir have defined the election in terms of peace and the Palestinians...
The Citizens' Rights Movement is the left's answer to Tehiya, proposing direct talks with the P.L.O. and an end to the military occupation. It now holds five seats and may win up to eight. Party leader Shulamit Aloni, a former Labor member, has already informed Peres that she will...
By design or not, Rabin's new crackdown may have the political benefit of reassuring Israeli voters who deem the Labor Party soft on the Palestinians. The right-wing Likud bloc of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir refuses to surrender any of the West Bank and Gaza, and some members even...
The position of the main opposition party, Labor, is not fundamentally different. Labor's slogan in the 1984 election read: "NO: no return to the '67 borders, no removal of settlements, no negotiations with the PLO, no Palestinian state..." In March of this year, Labor leader Shimon Peres--commonly represented...