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<text id=93TT1369>
<title>
Apr. 05, 1993: Political Cross Fire
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Apr. 05, 1993 The Generation That Forgot God
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK, Page 17
WORLD
Political Cross Fire
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<p>Netanyahu and Weizman, poles apart, gain office in Israel
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<p> One is a hawk, the other a dove. Each has now soared to great
political heights in Israel. Former Deputy Foreign Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu, 43, was elected chief of the opposition
Likud bloc, and ultraleftist politician Ezer Weizman, 68, was
chosen by the Knesset to be Israel's next President, a largely
ceremonial post.
</p>
<p> With the articulate and popular Netanyahu at the head of
the opposition, the government of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
will probably face a tougher time selling its policies.
Trickiest will be Rabin's proposal to return at least part of
the Golan Heights to Syria, a move opposed by Netanyahu and
about half the population. Concessions for peace will have an
eloquent advocate in Weizman, a former Defense Minister and
chief of the air force and one of Israel's most flamboyant
politicians. Once an avid hawk, Weizman now supports withdrawal
from the Golan, direct negotiations with the P.L.O. and the
establishment of a Palestinian state.
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