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...that the Peres proposals had not been approved, or even discussed, by the Cabinet before the Prime Minister left for Vienna, Washington and New York City on Oct. 15. Deputy Prime Minister David Levy accused Peres of "dangerous deviations from the agreed policy of this government." Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, leader of the Likud bloc, was more circumspect. At a two-hour luncheon meeting with European Community foreign ministers in Luxembourg, he said only that an "international forum" would allow the P.L.O. to "hide behind" one or more participating delegations...
...National Unity government. Peres had allowed Weizman to accept the Egyptian government's invitation because the former Defense Minister played an important role in the 1979 Camp David peace talks, and is generally thought to be the Egyptians' favorite Israeli politician. To assuage the feelings of Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, leader of the Likud bloc and the next Prime Minister under the Labor-Likud coalition agreement, Peres described the Weizman mission as a "private visit." That was agreeable to Shamir until word got out that Weizman was hoping to discuss a possible summit meeting. In a talk with Likud activists...
Peres resolved the impasse with Shamir by ordering a telephone canvass of the entire Cabinet, and won a vote of 13 to 12 in favor of the Weizman trip, with Religious Affairs Minister Yosef Burg of the National Religious Party and Minister Without Portfolio Yigal Hurvitz of the Ometz Party casting the deciding votes. The Prime Minister received the good news as he left a meeting with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Murphy, who is laying the groundwork for a visit next month by Secretary of State George Shultz...
...take place until the two sides are certain that it will be at least a marginal success. More immediately, Peres and his Labor colleagues realize they must work hard to soothe the Likud's feelings. In a similar vein, Weizman complained to Mubarak that a recent attack on Shamir in an Egyptian newspaper was not conducive to improving relations between the two countries; an obliging Mubarak called in a group of Cairo editors and told them to tone things down...
...become a litmus test among Arabs of U.S. bona fides in the Middle East. That was the reason the first Bush administration leaned heavily on the Israelis before and after the Gulf War, threatening to cut funding if Israel persisted in expanding its West Bank settlements and cajoling the Shamir government into diplomatic negotiations with the Palestinians. Key architects of that policy, such as former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and former Secretary of State James Baker, have urged the current Bush administration to follow suit...