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...political benefit of reassuring Israeli voters who deem the Labor Party soft on the Palestinians. The right-wing Likud bloc of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir refuses to surrender any of the West Bank and Gaza, and some members even boast they could crush the intifadeh in weeks. Labor leader Shimon Peres has endorsed proposals for negotiations that would return some territory to Arab rule, which many interpret as signifying an inability to quell the rebellion. Rabin seems determined to prove them wrong. Said Shamir media adviser Avi Pazner: "If you take the last nine months, it's certainly helped Labor...
...position of the main opposition party, Labor, is not fundamentally different. Labor's slogan in the 1984 election read: "NO: no return to the '67 borders, no removal of settlements, no negotiations with the PLO, no Palestinian state..." In March of this year, Labor leader Shimon Peres--commonly represented as the most "dovish" of Israeli leaders--unequivocally stated his absolute refusal to negotiate with the PLO: "I object completely to any dealings with...
...rejected outright by Israel, which regards the P.L.O. as a terrorist group and considers large parts of the occupied territories necessary for its security. "The Israeli government will do everything so that these statements remain empty words, unmatched by deeds," said Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. Added Foreign Minister Shimon Peres: "It is not a substitute for dealing seriously with the situation." Ariel Sharon, a former Defense Minister who heads the Industry and Trade Ministry, proposed extending Israeli law to portions of the occupied territories. U.S. officials warned against that move, which would be tantamount to annexation, but seemed taken...
...spoke in favor of annexation, while Labor ministers warned that an expanded Israel would dangerously tilt the balance of the population in favor of the Arabs. No action is expected before the November election of a Prime Minister, which pits hard-liner Shamir against the more moderate Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. Peres, who accepts the concept of a Jordanian- Palestinian delegation at an international peace conference, insisted last week that Hussein's move was "more of a warning than a practical step." One practical consequence, however, may be that Peres could suffer at the polls...
Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York City: "We don't want to dominate the Arabs because the Arabs don't want to be dominated . . . And believe me, it is so difficult to govern the Jewish people, why should we try and govern somebody else, anyway...