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Peace process flounders
as time runs out for Peres
by Yaacov Ben Yosef
Special to The Southern Israelite
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NEW YORK -These are sober
ing times for Israel as the peace
process remains dormant with little
prospect of producing the kind of
achievements Prime Minister Shi
mon Peres had hoped tor.
Just last week, all had seemed
rosy as Minister without Portfolio
Ezer Weizman raced ott to Cairo
to huddle with Egyptian President
Hosni Mubarak. Weizman s
attempt to arrange an early Peres-
Mubarak summit that w ould patch
up Israeli-Egyptian relations tailed.
Moreover, the prime minister's
own nine-day trip to Western
Europe, which ended Jan. 27. had
included some frenetic shuttling by
American envoy Richard Murphy,
hoping to bridge the gap between
King Hussein in London and Peres
in Holland, and later in London.
But the Murphy mission also
fizzled, as King Hussein has
apparentlv still not been able to
dump PLO leader Yasir Arafat
and go it alone in peace talks with
Israel.
Peres must certainly be aware of
the lack of time at his disposal to
achieve some new progress in the
Mideast peace process. In only
eight months he must turn over the
prime ministership to Likud leader
Yitzhak Shamir, the current foreign
minister. Peres will then, according
to the Labor-Likud coalition
agreement of September 1984. be
come foreign minister.
It is not a happy thought for
Peres. Throughout his tenure as
prime minister he has been urged
by aides and political colleagues to
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bring down the National Unity
Government and try to set up a
narrow one (without Likud par
ticipation). I he virtue of that plan
would be to avoid having to turn
power over to Shamir next October
The defect: Peres has never been
certain that he would have enough
political support to assure his es
tablishing a narrow government.
Now that he is back from Western
Europe, a visit that appears to have
w on the prime minister a good deal
of credit. Peres will almost certainly
be examining his remaining political
options carefully. Already, those
same aides who have been pres
suring Peres to torpedo the rotation
agreement have been passing word
that they have no intention of
remaining as aides to Foreign Mi
nister Peres next fall.
That may not be much of a
threat to Peres, but it does indicate
how eager they are now to remain
in the prime minister’s office and
therefore how likely they will be to
pressure Peres even more in the
coming weeks to take the plunge.
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As for the Likud, its room tor
political maneuver is as limited as
is Peres’-but for different reasons
While Shamir generates no great
enthusiasm in the Likud’s ranks-
and many would like to see him
replaced as party leader the I.ikud
is effectively stuck with him. Eor.it
is he, and he alone who can inherit
the prime ministership next tall
The Labor-Likud coalition ro
tation agreement gives Labor a
veto over any other person selected
by the Likud to replace Shamir,
should that become necessary
Thus, if the Likud went ahead and
made David Levy, the depute prime
minister, or Ariel Sharon, the mi
nister for commerce and industry,
the new I.ikud leader, that would
probably assure Peres’ remaining
in office for he would no longer
be obligated to honor the rotation
accord.
As for Sharon, last w eek marked
the end of his three-year legal battle
with Time. The minister reached
an out-of-court settlement in his
libel suit against Time in a I el Aviv
district court. The amount of the
settlement was not disclosed.
Afterward, in an interview over
Israel Radio, Sharon professed
himself satisfied with the outcome.
The settlement, he said, was "a
victory for truth and freedom ot
expression for the press."
One other piece of news last
week in. Israel seemed odd at first
glance. That was the fact, confirmed
by the State Department, that Israel
had agreed to return $51 million of
the $ 1.2 billion it received from the
United States in economic aid last
fall.
While some found it remarkable
that Israel would return the money,
it was a prudent move on the
Israelis’ part. In doing so. they
were helping the Reagan ad
ministration meet its budget-cutting
requirements under the newly
enacted Gramm-Rudman Law Ihe
refund, set to take place this month,
was purely voluntary on Israel’s
part.
But this way, in winning much
praise within the U.S., Israel will
be in good position to attain the
amount of economic aid it seeks
next year from Washington
It is possible that Israel will have
to return some of the $ 1.8 billion in
military aid it is supposed to receive
for 1986 but that has not been
worked out yet.
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