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...dissatisfied with their country's leaders. "There's a terrible restlessness developing," warns Pollster Smith. "Israelis have no one to look up to, no credible leader. So they don't know where they're headed." No exciting young politicians have surfaced to challenge the reigning trinity of Peres, Shamir and Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin. More distressing, at the moment Israelis see no visionaries, no David Ben-Gurions or Golda Meirs who might lead Israel out of its doldrums...
...political elite is nervous about the investigation. It is widely assumed that the conclusions will paint a grim portrait of the Israeli government. Shamir's associates are bracing for a verdict that will be a broad, stinging indictment of the recent tendency to delegate too much - authority. But they do not anticipate any findings that will contradict Shamir's repeated contention that the Pollard affair was a "rogue" operation. "I don't think it will point a finger at the political leadership, but it will point to a very disorganized system that permitted this operation in the first place," says...
Ironically, the ruling coalition will probably shield Israel's top politicians from having to shoulder the blame. Much as Shamir, Peres and Rabin have evaded responsibility and protected one another throughout the Shin Bet and Iran-contra scandals, so they are expected to maintain a united front of professed ignorance about the Pollard operation. "If we had one major party in power, you'd find a scapegoat. But here they all hang together because everybody's implicated," charges Shlomo Avineri, a former director general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry. "You can't scapegoat anyone. That would mean a breakup...
...idea of an international peace conference to break the diplomatic logjam that has plagued the Middle East for years almost invariably arouses anger. Last week it led to an acrimonious dispute that thoroughly shook the 2 1/2- year-old coalition government in Israel, with Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir bitterly accusing Shimon Peres, his own Foreign Minister, of displaying a "peace-at-any-price" mentality for endorsing such a parley. Every U.S. Administration since the mid-1970s has opposed the idea, largely because it would mean participation by the Soviet Union. Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan were all deeply...
...sharply divided over the concept of an international peace conference. Labor Party leaders, including Foreign Minister Peres, Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Minister without Portfolio Ezer Weizman and former Foreign Minister Abba Eban, have endorsed the idea, but Likud leaders have so far rejected the proposals and Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir has recently renewed his commitment not to withdraw from any portion of the occupied territories. It may be necessary ultimately for the Israeli public to resolve these differences through early national elections...