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...probably going to be one of the dirtiest campaigns Israel has ever had," said a ranking Labor member. For one thing, the party's strategists expect a vituperative attack against Peres, quoting various uncomplimentary remarks made by his rival for the party leadership, former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin...
...feud turned into something of a national spectator sport, with innumerable tales of shouting matches and table thumpings at staff meetings. Peres was not only guilty of "exaggerated pretensions," Rabin later charged in his memoirs, but also of "trying to disrupt the workings of the government" and even of "lies and untruths." Peres was somewhat more circumspect in his criticism. But after the dramatic Israeli raid on Entebbe in 1976, the Defense Minister let it be known that Rabin had been "forced" by the Cabinet to authorize the raid. Peres privately spread the word that he considered Rabin...
When the party nomination for Prime Minister came up in February 1977, Rabin scraped through with another narrow victory...
...sparks of their personal friction, Rabin and Peres have no significant ideological or policy differences. Both advocate tough budget cutting and tight foreign currency control to fight Israel's punishing triple-digit inflation. On matters of foreign policy, both want to maintain close relations with the U.S. and honor the Camp David agreements. Rabin and Peres subscribe to the "Jordanian" option, under which most of the occupied West Bank would revert to joint Jordanian-Palestinian control...
Unless they settle their feud once and for all, neither man may get a chance to test those policies in office. "By the time the [Rabin-Peres] battle is over," Jerusalem Post Columnist Philip Gillon commented recently, the winner "will have as much hope of beating Begin as a celluloid dog would have of catching an asbestos cat in Hades...