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...allowed Weizman to accept the Egyptian government's invitation because the former Defense Minister played an important role in the 1979 Camp David peace talks, and is generally thought to be the Egyptians' favorite Israeli politician. To assuage the feelings of Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, leader of the Likud bloc and the next Prime Minister under the Labor-Likud coalition agreement, Peres described the Weizman mission as a "private visit." That was agreeable to Shamir until word got out that Weizman was hoping to discuss a possible summit meeting. In a talk with Likud activists, Shamir declared that Weizman...
...southern Lebanon almost complete and the state of the economy gradually improving, Peres' popularity is rising. A recent poll in the newspaper Ma 'ariv found that 47.2% of those questioned support Peres, up from 42.4% in January and 27.9% last August. However, relations between the Labor Party and the Likud bloc, which have been tense under the unprecedented power-sharing arrangement, reached an all-time low as a result of the so-called Weizman affair...
Nobody expects the Israeli-Egyptian summit to take place until the two sides are certain that it will be at least a marginal success. More immediately, Peres and his Labor colleagues realize they must work hard to soothe the Likud's feelings. In a similar vein, Weizman complained to Mubarak that a recent attack on Shamir in an Egyptian newspaper was not conducive to improving relations between the two countries; an obliging Mubarak called in a group of Cairo editors and told them to tone things down...
Full Steam Ahead MIDDLE EAST Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said the government would use "all its might" against settlers who violently resist the government's planned withdrawal from Gaza. A coalition deal signed between Sharon's ruling Likud party, the opposition Labor party and a small, ultra-orthodox Jewish group ensured the plan will have majority support in parliament...
...Latin American history and economics, noted in an e-mail that prominent Jews—including Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt—made the same comparison to Nazism in 1948 when they denounced the Herut Party, the predecessor to current Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Likud bloc...