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Israel's government officials, who have tenuously united the nation's two major political parties in a 19-month old coalition, are playing a frantic game of musical cabinet seats to salvage the unity coalition. It all began when Finance Minister Yitzhak Modai, engineer of the miraculous plan that tightened up Israel's inflation-racked economy, flung insults at Prime Minister Shimon Peres. Peres felt he had to respond; but if he dismissed Modai, the rightest Likud officials threatened to leave the coalition Cabinet...
Then, compromise Israeli style. Likud bloc leader and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir volunteered to switch jobs with his Likud cohort Modai. Negotiator turned money man, and vice versa. Peres will save face by playing tough guy with Modai, Shamir will patch together the coalition until the rotation agreement lands him the premiership this October, Modai will stay in the Cabinet and assume what is said to be his dream job. Everbody's happy. Unless conniving politicos get their way, that...
Moreover, his Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin has been able to claim that the Lebanese border was safer than it had been for years. With the support of only a few hundred Israeli soldiers, the Israeli-backed, predominantly Christian South Lebanon Army militia has been notably effective in preventing Palestinian-inspired attacks across the Israeli frontier. At the same time, the mainstream Shi'ite Amal militia in southern Lebanon has not opposed Israeli efforts to keep down the level of P.L.O. activity, but it cannot afford to risk a confrontation with Hizballah, which has a considerable following among...
...adversary Syrian President Hafez Assad. The breakdown in talks may precipitate a new round of violence by Palestinians, who see diplomacy failing once again to resolve their problems. And it vastly increases the likelihood that Peres will be obliged to exchange jobs in the fall with Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, head of the Likud. Under the terms of the prevailing coalition agreement, each man is supposed to hold the top position for 25 months. If Hussein's peace initiative had succeeded, Peres might have been able to call elections to determine whether Israel should participate. But in the absence...
Israel's defense minister, Yitzhak Rabin, said in Tel that Hussein's decision created a "historic opportunity" for Middle East peace. Rabin called on the 1.3 million Palestinians in Israel's occupied territories to jettison...