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...holding on to the occupied territories, at least for the present. Iraq's Scud attacks on Israel during the war and Palestinian support for the bombardments heightened distrust of Arab intentions among Israelis. Even the opposition Labor Party seems reluctant to yield too much of the occupied lands; leader Shimon Peres suggested recently that he was not eager to give up the Golan Heights...
...most profound impact. Already Labor and Likud are vying for the allegiance of the newcomers, and the outcome of their fierce political courtship could be decisive for the Jewish state, determining whether it continues on a collision course with its neighbors and world opinion. Acknowledges Labor party leader Shimon Peres: "Soviet Jews may decide which way the country goes...
...handful of small religious parties that hold the balance of power have engaged in an especially crude game of barter. The five-member Liberal party demanded a $10 million bond to guarantee that a Likud-led coalition would stick to promises swapped for Liberal support. Labor leader Shimon Peres spent five weeks trying to purchase his own majority with generous offers of ministries and money to the religious parties...
...with the vulnerability of Israel's political system to the demands of fanatical ultra- Orthodox sects, as demonstrated last month by the ability of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, an 88-year-old Brooklyn rabbi, to derail the Labor Party's attempt to form a government. Last week, after Labor leader Shimon Peres' attempt to forge a peace coalition collapsed, Shamir was given three weeks to put together a government. In contrast to the unwieldy Likud-Labor coalitions that have ruled Israel since 1984, Shamir wants to install a narrowly based right-wing regime that his party controls...
...side, Hartman is a spiritual and political adviser to Shimon Peres, the once and would-be Prime Minister, to Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek and to a host of other politicians, philosophers and journalists, both in Israel and abroad. "The most important commodity in life, which I apparently lack, is wisdom," says Peres. "David has it. How different things would be if everyone were like him." Think of Hartman as a "philosopher therapist," says the New York Times's Thomas Friedman. "One goes to him as to an oracle. He is the Israeli we wish they all were...