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This year both Labor and Likud hope to stitch together a majority without each other. Likud's most obvious partner is Tehiya, an extremist party that says what Prime Minister Shamir may only think. It now holds four seats and may win as many as seven. "We want annexation," declares Yuval Ne'eman, party leader and director of the Israeli Space Agency. At a minimum, Tehiya would insist that Shamir launch a new wave of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and promise in writing never to approach a negotiating table with a land deed in his back pocket...
Perhaps, perhaps not. In Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres emerged with a slightly strengthened political hand from a bout of squabbling that enveloped his national unity government. By an 86-to-6 vote of the Knesset, Peres easily survived a no-confidence motion brought by Tehiya, a tiny right-wing splinter party. The motion was intended to force Peres to withdraw an offer that he had made a week earlier before the United Nations General Assembly. The Israeli leader told the U.N. that Israel might concede a role in the peace process to a vaguely defined "international forum...
...Monday in the Knesset, he railed against anyone who would "pile obstacles on the road to the peace process." Legislators apparently were impressed. By a 68-to-10 vote of the 120-member chamber, they endorsed a resolution in support of Peres' U.N. speech before voting down the Tehiya no-confidence motion...
...flights were canceled after Israeli officials confirmed newspaper reports / that a rescue mission was under way. Infuriated that premature publicity had compromised the airlift, the left-wing Citizens' Rights Movement and the right-wing Tehiya Party introduced no-confidence motions against the government in the Knesset. But Prime Minister Shimon Peres persuaded the parties to drop the motions by arguing that they would only bring more attention to the Falashas. "We Israelis manage to take a wonderful thing like this operation and create controversy all around it," said one Israeli immigration official in Jerusalem...
...economy was not the only issue that inflamed Israeli tempers last week. A visit by five members of West Germany's Green Party resulted in a fracas on the Knesset floor. Claiming that the Greens have expressed support for the Palestine Liberation Organization, Geula Cohen of the right-wing Tehiya Party greeted the West Germans, who were sitting in the visitors' gallery, by holding up a poster that read BROWN GREENS OUT. The slogan was apparently intended to equate the left-leaning Greens with the Nazi Brown-shirts. Tewfik Toubi, an Arab-Israeli Communist who has been a member...