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<text id=90TT0106>
<title>
Jan. 15, 1990: World Notes:Israel
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Jan. 15, 1990 Antarctica
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 43
World Notes
ISRAEL
On the Firing Line
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<body>
<p> For 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.
</p>
<p> The skirmish came at a sensitive time for Shamir. Plans are
under way for a meeting of Israeli, American and Egyptian
foreign ministers to advance Shamir's proposal for elections
in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. The Prime Minister's
ulterior motive in attacking Weizman was to emphasize his
determination never to accept any role for the P.L.O.
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</body>
</article>
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