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...raucous meeting of the right-wing Likud Central Committee last week, Trade and Industry Minister Ariel ("Arik") Sharon stunned the 3,200 delegates by announcing his resignation from the Cabinet. In a scalding attack against the party's leader, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Sharon declared that "under your government, Palestinian terrorism runs wild throughout the land of Israel." He insisted, "I know it is possible to eliminate terror...
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir promised in a phone call that they would not allow the attack to threaten Israeli-Egyptian relations. But it could strengthen the hand of Israeli hard- liners at this week's crucial meeting of the Likud bloc's Central Committee. Industry and Trade Minister Ariel Sharon says the bus tragedy is proof that the Arabs want blood, not peace. He plans to load more amendments onto Shamir's already heavily encumbered plan for Palestinian elections...
...officials estimate that up to 700,000 Soviet Jews might make aliyah, the "ascent" to Israel, over the next three to five years. The prospect fills Israeli leaders with joy: immigration has slumped, and in some recent years it has been equaled and possibly surpassed by emigration. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir spoke for many of his fellow right-wing politicians when he said, "Big immigration requires Israel to be big as well." The Arab world is reacting with concern and anger...
...months the fragile Likud-Labor coalition has been heading for a showdown over how Israel should engage the Palestinians. Last week Likud Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir nearly precipitated the crisis by announcing that he was firing Science and Technology Minister Ezer Weizman for holding secret talks with the P.L.O. Israeli policy forbids contact with the P.L.O., but Weizman has long advocated -- and indirectly practiced -- a dialogue. Labor threatened to bolt from the government, but eventually both sides compromised. Labor stayed in, although Weizman was excluded from the foreign-policy-making inner Cabinet...
Arafat's excruciating conversion earned the P.L.O. a dialogue with Washington, but brought on nightmares in Jerusalem. Pressure mounted from the Bush Administration and American Jews, and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir finally countered with an initiative last spring that calls for elections among Palestinians in the territories. Representatives chosen there would negotiate a period of autonomy with Israel, to be followed by the promise of talks on a final settlement...