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...resolve of Israel's hard-line Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to crack down on the rioters. Four thousand soldiers swept through towns and refugee camps, arresting as many as 1,000 Palestinians and carting them off to hastily erected detention centers. Then, in an angry speech in the Knesset, Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin announced that Israeli soldiers would continue to shoot at the "leaders of disorder, throwers of fire bombs." Rabin added that his men would aim to injure, not kill, but he left little doubt that the government would not tolerate the loss of Israeli life. "As Defense Minister...
...question shot to the forefront of national political debate this summer, when Shimon Peres, the Foreign Minister and Labor Party leader, sought early elections over the unrelated issue of an international peace conference on the Middle East. The ultra-Orthodox Shas Party, which has only four Knesset seats, seized the occasion to seek a major concession. In return for supporting Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's opposition to new elections, Shas demanded that Shamir's Likud bloc back the Orthodox definition of who is a Jew. Shamir tried to ram through a vote to that effect in July, but a handful...
...Hebrew for lion) or scrap a warplane that has become a symbol of national pride and a key source of jobs. The need to make that choice has triggered a vitriolic debate in which military and economic issues have frequently given way to pure emotion. "The real question," shouted Knesset Member Yosi Sarid last month, "is whether we become a state which has a fighter plane or a fighter plane which has a state." Even Rabin admits that the choice is the "most difficult and important decision faced by an Israeli government in more than a decade...
Foreign Minister Shimon Peres' Labor Party failed last week to muster enough votes in the 120-seat Knesset to force Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to call early elections. As a result, Peres was thwarted, at least for the moment, in his drive to convene an international peace conference on the Middle East...
...debate the issue, and twice the sessions ended in stalemate. Peres threatened to break up the coalition and call new elections if the inner Cabinet failed to support him on the peace proposal. But by midweek he lacked a handful of the 61 votes in the 120-member Knesset needed to bring about early elections. With Labor short of sufficient support, party officials feared that Likud, with the help of some small religious parties, would then be able to hang on until November 1988. Before leaving for the U.S. to consult with Secretary of State George Shultz, Peres was forced...