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...peace process. It is a debate, however, that the assassination of Rabin has turned suddenly and sharply against him. Likud and Netanyahu had for months been building up a big lead in public-opinion polls over the Labor government. But the first postassassination poll, published Friday in the newspaper Yediot Aharonot, showed that Rabin's successor, acting Prime Minister Shimon Peres, would win 54% of the votes if an election were held today; Netanyahu would take only 23%. The poll also indicated that if a new Israeli Knesset were elected now, Labor would win 46 seats and Likud 30. That...
Lily Feidy doesn't think so. "Who will restart the intifadeh?" she asks. "People are exhausted." Speaking for the Israelis, author Meir Shalev agrees. "This is not a peace of the brave, nor the peace of friends, nor the peace of the wise," he wrote in the daily Yediot Ahronot. "It is the peace of the tired." Neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians, it may be, have the spirit to return to out-and-out confrontation. But if progress toward a final agreement requires enthusiastic and broad support, it is difficult to see right now where it will come from...
...editors of Israel's two leading daily newspapers are now sitting in jail while authorities investigate allegations that the press barons ordered illegal wiretaps against each other as part of an all-out circulation war. Today, dozens of police poured into the Tel Aviv headquarters of Yediot Ahronot, the country's largest daily, carting off crates of documents and detaining the publisher and two top editors for questioning. The editor of Yediot's main competitor, Maariv, has been under arrest since Saturday. "It's a black day for journalism," said Israeli Communications Minister Shulamit Aloni, who took time to remind...
...This is complete nonsense, absolute lies," Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir declared last week to the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonoth. Dore Gold of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University voiced a suspicion common in Israel: "What we're witnessing is a kind of psychological warfare between allies, particularly because Washington faced a very embarrassing moment after its failure to grab the Scud ship." But questions will linger because Israel has sold enough military technology to China in the past to make the latest charges seem plausible...
...Secretary of State James Baker toured the region, the betting was that the Israeli leader would stall, if not turn Baker down flat. Defense Minister Moshe Arens predicted to the newspaper Yediot Aharonot that Baker would leave without any agreement that "will bring about the meeting he wants to organize." Even if Shamir accepted, right-wing parties would almost certainly leave his coalition and topple the government. New elections would then delay a peace conference further...