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Likud's Yitzhak Shamir believes that Israel should include the West Bank captured from the Arabs in 1967 -- and still heavily populated by Arabs in 1990. Labor's Shimon Peres believes in trading land for peace. The territory traded would become part of a Palestinian "entity," a cryptogram that many predict will someday be decoded to mean a Palestinian state. While opposing that particular outcome, Labor is at least willing to begin negotiating with the Palestinians and see where the process leads. Likud seems not to be, which is why Shamir did everything he could as Prime Minister to delay...
Politics is often called the art of the possible. But Israel is rapidly transforming politics into the art of the improbable -- if not the downright ridiculous. Ever since the collapse of Israel's coalition government on March 15, Labor leader Shimon Peres has been scrambling to put together a new government without his party's nemesis, the conservative Likud bloc. Early last week Peres appeared to have sewn up 61 of the Knesset's 120 votes. But on Wednesday two Deputies of the religious party Agudat Yisrael backed out of a signed agreement, leaving Peres two votes short...
...positive effect of Saddam's threats was to produce a rare moment of unity last week among Israel's factious politicians, pushing aside the machinations that followed the March 15 collapse of Israel's national unity government. Last Wednesday Labor leader Shimon Peres claimed that he had cobbled together a coalition to displace the caretaker Shamir. Peres plans to present his new government to the Knesset this week for a vote of confidence...
...compromise plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in Cairo and risking the collapse of his national unity government, Shamir stuck to his ideology. After a dramatic showdown on the floor of the Knesset, he became the first Israeli leader ever to be evicted from office when Labor Party leader Shimon Peres pushed through a vote of no confidence by a margin...
...When Shimon Peres visited the Institute of Politics two years ago, I asked him about Israeli military and trade ties to South Africa. His response was something to the effect of, "Well, Japan has relations with South Africa, so why shouldn't Israel...