Word: likud
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Then there were electoral considerations, never far from any Israeli politician's mind. Coming into the week, the ruling Likud bloc and the Labor Party were both preparing to name leaders to run for Prime Minister in national elections on June 23. For Likud, Sunday's assault on Musawi was a well-timed reminder to voters that it is implacably committed to the country's physical security. As expected, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir got the nod from his bloc. In Israel's first primary ever, Labor members elected Yitzhak Rabin to replace Shimon Peres...
...buildings in Arab East Jerusalem to send the government a message that no retreat would be tolerated from the occupied lands, particularly the Holy City. If that position makes it more difficult to convene a peace conference -- well, said some far-right members of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's Likud-led coalition, so much the better. The government, however, branded the move a "mistake," removed the settlers from five of the houses, and shuffled the dispute over to the Attorney General's office...
...Likud government has been using the massive influx of Soviet Jews to justify a tripling in settlement activity in the occupied territories. Never mind that few of the new arrivals have any desire to live in the West Bank or Golan Heights; never mind that even though Israel is a small country, there's still plenty of undeveloped real estate inside the pre-1967 borders...
...Likud is bent on settling the territories to ensure their de facto annexation and preclude any exchange of land for peace. If Housing Minister Ariel Sharon had his way, the Trojan horse would be filled with immigrants speaking Russian...
...Sharon, the Soviet Jews have appeared at just the right moment. Desperate for somewhere to live, they're natural constituents of the Housing Minister. Many are easy recruits for Likud -- if only because the alternative, the Labor Party, flies a red flag, celebrates May Day and has been known to sing the Internationale...