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Beyond the immediate problem of keeping order, no one in Israel's divided leadership seems to envision any long-term solution for the occupied territories. Yitzhak Shamir, the Likud bloc leader who succeeded Labor's Shimon Peres as Prime Minister last year, is much less willing than his predecessor to negotiate a settlement. With no prospect of political talks, the people of Gaza and the West Bank are falling under the sway of Islamic fundamentalism. In Gaza last week the mosques helped fan the unrest among embittered young men no longer afraid of becoming martyrs...
...question shot to the forefront of national political debate this summer, when Shimon Peres, the Foreign Minister and Labor Party leader, sought early elections over the unrelated issue of an international peace conference on the Middle East. The ultra-Orthodox Shas Party, which has only four Knesset seats, seized the occasion to seek a major concession. In return for supporting Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's opposition to new elections, Shas demanded that Shamir's Likud bloc back the Orthodox definition of who is a Jew. Shamir tried to ram through a vote to that effect in July, but a handful...
Unfortunately, Israeli Prime Minister Shamir doesn't understand this. His political opponent, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, does, as he made clear last week at the Kennedy School. He has received assurances that the Soviet Union will play no formal role at the bargaining table and that Israel can leave the conference at any time. The U.S. has promised to support Israel by joining it in walking away from the table if the Soviet Union tries to exert its influence toward a solution Israel does not like...
Flynn spent yesterday welcoming former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres to the city and attending a groundbreaking with Gov. Michael S. Dukakis for a $20.3 million, 165-unit housing project in Boston's Mission Hill section...
...Shimon Peres, the once and possibly future prime minister of Israel, will speak at the Kennedy Schools this afternoon on the prospects for peace in the Middle East and his controversial call for the convening of an international conference as a means to achieve...