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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
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 43
- World Notes
- ISRAEL
- On the Firing Line
- </hdr>
- <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.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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