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Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir was virtually catatonic as he gazed at the TV screen, learning for the first time the results of exit polls that accurately predicted his Likud party's drubbing in national elections last week. The rival Labor Party took 44 of the 120 Knesset seats (vs. 39 in the previous parliament), Likud a pitiful 32 (vs. 40) -- its worst performance since the party's first outing, in 1973. The poor showing prompted Shamir to announce he would retire from politics soon, setting the stage for a fierce battle for the Likud leadership. One contender, Defense Minister Moshe...
...BEEN BILLED AS THE GRAND BATTLE OF THE Yitzhaks: a robust election campaign pitting Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir against the toughest foe he has faced -- the former and newly returned head of the Labor Party, Yitzhak Rabin. Instead, the fight has shriveled into what the Jerusalem Post last week called "the Longest Yawn." Voters are so overcome with ennui that the major parties are canceling campaign events for lack of attendance. Posters and banners can hardly be seen in the streets. And Shamir's Likud is moaning that the Venezuelan soap opera Crystal is drawing the party's natural...
Israeli officials profess a commitment to closing the economic gap between the Arabs and Jews. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's declared goal is to equalize government spending on citizens in four years. Even if that happens, growing numbers of Israel's Arab citizens will be in an anomalous position: as long as the Palestinian problem is unresolved, their own country will be at war with them. In this case, says Ibrahim Sarsur, the Islamicist mayor of Kfar Qasim, "the circle of bloodshed will not be broken." If more Arab Israelis take up the battle for Islamic supremacy even...
...million Jews expected to arrive from the former Soviet Union in the next five years -- a task comparable to the U.S. absorbing all of France. Washington has linked guarantees to a halt to new Israeli settlements in the occupied territories. That link has been staunchly resisted by Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who refuses to repudiate the right of Jews to inhabit all of the biblical land of Israel and rejects the U.S. argument that the settlements are a provocation to the Palestinians and thus an obstacle to peace...
...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...