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...Sinai. Sadat might then also be able to count on more economic assistance from the Saudis; as long as he is a pariah in the Arab world, they are constrained from helping him very much. A Jordanian "solution" for the West Bank will become more feasible if Shimon Peres succeeds Menachem Begin as Prune Minister in Israeli elections this summer. Peres and his Labor Party have expressed a willingness, under certain circumstances, to return much of the West Bank to Jordanian sovereignty...
...bill introduced in the Knesset, Begin proposed that the new election be held on July 7. That date was promptly challenged by some because it coincides with the beginning of the nation's summer vacation. But the opposition Labor Party, led by Shimon Peres, would like to see elections held sooner, in part to take advantage of its current popularity in the polls, and in part because its leadership believes that a strong new government should be formed quickly to cope with Israel's rapidly deteriorating economy...
...avail. Leaders of the opposition, principally the Labor Party candidate for Prime Minister, Shimon Peres, plotted a parliamentary assault aimed at finishing off the government. To avoid such a showdown, the Begin Cabinet voted Sunday to ask the Knesset to call an early election on July 7, four months ahead of schedule. Begin's government had sounded its finale in the kind of unruly Cabinet session that had become a hallmark of his 3½ years in office. The issue had originally seemed relatively benign: a pay raise for the country's 65,000 teachers, approved earlier...
...want to be responsible for the economic collapse." Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon, who is renowned both for histrionic outbursts and for an unyielding determination to plant more Jewish settlements on the occupied West Bank, lashed out at Hurvitz. Said he: "If you want to hand Greater Israel over to Shimon Peres so that he can pass it on in its entirety to [Palestine Liberation Organization Leader] Yasser Arafat, why don't you say so instead of making all this economic talk?" Hurvitz, who had resigned from the Cabinet once before in opposition to the Camp David peace accords...
...intensity of the feud has few parallels in other democracies. In one corner is aggressive, right-of-center Shimon Peres, 57, the former Defense Minister who is trying to retain the Labor Party leadership he inherited in 1977. In the other is cautious, centrist, former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, 58, who was discredited by scandal 3½ years ago, but has been battling ever since to regain the leadership. Peres and Rabin have served in Cabinets together, and they even live within two blocks of each other in the same Tel Aviv suburb of Ramat Aviv...