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PAGE 6 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE October 10, 1986
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Peres, Shamir
They’d rather switch than fight
by Yaacov Ben Yosef
Special to The Southern Israelite
JERUSALEM—The rotation
agreement, in which Prime Minis
ter Shimon Peres switches jobs
with Foreign Minister Yitzhak
Shamir, is about to take place.
Two years and one month after
Peres took over as prime minister,
establishing the national unity
government with Likud in a uni
que power-sharing arrangement,
Israel will have a change of leader
ship—but not of government.
Friday morning, if all goes as
scheduled, Peres will announce to
President Chaim Herzog that he is
resigning as prime minister, an act
that automatically brings down the
entire 25-member government,
government.
Herzog will then call in Israel’s
political parties for consultations:
more than likely he will exclude
from those consultations, as he has
in the past. Rabbi Meir Kahane’s
Kach Party. (Herzog has joined
others in trying to isolate Kahane
politically).
Soon thereafter, perhaps as early
as Sunday, Herzog will announce
that the consensus of the parties is
clear: Shamir is the choice to form
the next government. On Tuesday,
Oct. 14, the day after Yom Kippur,
Shamir will go before the Knesset
to present his new government.
It will be, as former Prime Min
ister Menachem Begin called it in
Yaacov Ben-Yosef
wishing Shamir success, “an old-
new government.” The ministers
will be virtually the same and the
new government will be forced to
adhere to the same coalition agree
ment as was Peres.
With just three days to go before
Peres planned to resign, the prime
minister and Shamir were holding
a series of one-on-one talks to
arrange for an orderly transfer of
power. The main stumbling block
had to do with the political future
of the Likud’s Yitzhak Modai, fi
nance minister for most of Peres’
term as prime minister.
Modai’s leaked personal attacks
on Peres last February and again
in April led to major political crises
that threatened to topple the gov
ernment. Both times Peres fell short
of firing Modai and made do with
an apology. The government re
mained intact. In July, when Modai,
by now justice minister, assailed
Peres once again, the former was
forced to resign. The Likud has
insisted since then that Modai must
be part of a Shamir-led govern
ment; Labor has refused.
In the end, some solution will
probably be found; Modai may
likely return as justice or commun
ications minister but certainly not
as finance minister. It was as finance
minister that Modai irritated Peres
the most. Labor has privately made
clear that if Modai returns he would
have to take a minor portfolio such
as communications.
Peres has also insisted, in his
talks with Shamir, that Labor be
given a stronger voice in economic
affairs after rotation, and the Likud
has largely acceded to that demand.
Labor believes, with some justifi
cation, that it was responsible for
the economic recovery of the past
two years—and it wants to con
tinue to be perceived as helping in
the economic turn-around, partic
ularly when elections are held next,
scheduled for November 1988.
Both Labor and Likud politi
cians agree that there will be no
great change in substance in the
new Shamir-led government, that
whatever differences there will be,
will be mostly stylistic. While some
worry that Shamir will do less to
energize the peace process, the
Likud points out that Peres, for all
of his public declarations and trav
els, was unable to move matters
forward very much.
Peres, as foreign minister, will
do his best to push the peace pro
cess, but his aides realize that after
rotation Shamir will be able to set
the pace. And so Peres’ intimates
worry that the next two years and
one month will be frustrating for
them.
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