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"We have no intention of attacking Syria, and Syria has no chance of defeating Israel." So said Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres last week, for the moment allaying fears that Israel might be on the verge of making a pre- emptive strike against its strongest Arab neighbor. Almost simultaneously, Syria...
From the moment of its formation 19 months ago, Israel's coalition government seemed ominously fragile. The carefully crafted alliance called for Prime Minister Shimon Peres of the moderate Labor Party to rule for 25 months and then switch places with Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, head of the rightist Likud...
The trouble began two weeks ago, when outspoken Finance Minister Yitzhak Moda'i, a Likud member, blasted Peres in newspaper interviews. Moda'i, who holds degrees in engineering, economics and law, said Peres deserves no credit for bringing Israel's runaway inflation under control because the Prime Minister "knows nothing...
Infuriated by the charges, Peres last week sought to fire Moda'i, thus triggering a bitter standoff. Shamir, who is scheduled to become Prime Minister in October under the coalition agreement, blocked Moda'i's dismissal and accused Peres of seeking to scuttle the political accord. When Moda'i offered...
At week's end, however, the compromise threatened to unravel. Peres refused to sanction Moda'i's resumption of the finance post and again threatened to fire him, perhaps at a Sunday Cabinet meeting. That raised anew the specter of a government-toppling Likud walkout. But under Israel's parliamentary...