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PAGE 2 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE October 17, 1986
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ENTERTAINMENT • TRAVEL • DISCUSSIONS • RELIGION
Peres, Shamir switch hits
snag in last-minute dispute
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by Yaacov Ben Yosef
Yitzhak Shamir, left, and Shimon Peres in deep discussion at the
Knesset.
Special to TSI
JERUSALEM—A last-minute
dispute over the composition of
the new cabinet delayed the rota
tion agreement in which Prime
Minister Shimon Peres was to
switch jobs with Foreign Minister
Yitzhak Shamir this week.
Shamir’s inability to present his
government Tuesday afternoon to
the Knesset, as called for under the
rotation agreement, was seen at
press time as an indication that
rotation might be implemented.
Or, it may simply be a minor delay,
with Shamir taking over a day or
two late. On Tuesday, however, an
air of crisis prevailed, and no one
could be certain how things would
turn out.
“We are at the height of a crisis,”
warned Labor Party Secretary-
General Uzi Bar-am at a hastily-
called news conference in Jerusa
lem Tuesday at midday. He charged
that Shamir had demonstrated “bad
faith” in the past few days. The
Likud, for its part, insisted that
Labor had injected new demands
that had no place in recent Labor-
Likud talks over procedures to
implement rotation.
The most critical issue in dispute
appears to be the fate of Likud
Knesset Member Yitzhak Modai,
who was forced to resign as Justice
Minister in July after launching a
personal attack against Peres. The
Likud has insisted that Modai be
allowed back in the government
once rotation occurred, but Labor
has refused.
The crisis erupted Tuesday
morning when Labor Party minis
ters emerged from a session at
Peres’ office to say that they would
not meet with President Chaim
Herzog later that day after all to
recommend to him that Shamir be
named the new prime minister.
The reason: as Uzi Bar-am put it,
“bad faith” shown by Shamir.
Last Friday morning, Peres had
gone to Herzog and announced
that he was resigning, paving the
way for the rotation to occur
Tuesday, as provided in the Labor-
Likud coalition agreement of 25
months earlier. Peres and Shamir
met that afternoon but could not
resolve all outstanding issues. Lit
tle happened Sunday, and nothing
happened Monday because of Yom
Kippur.
Then, by Tuesday midday, the
crisis was at its peak. Labor chose
Absorption Minister Yosef Tzur
and Energy Minister Moshe Sha-
hal to negotiate on its behalf. Likud
ministers emerged from a meeting
in Shamir’s office at 2 p.m. to
declare that Shamir would make
another attempt to wrap up mat
ters with Peres in a meeting later
that afternoon. The two men met
for 30 minutes without resolving
their differences and did not fix a
time for another session.
Meanwhile, following Peres’
resignation, Herzog began to meet
representatives of various political
parties, as he must do by law, to
hear their recommendations on who
should be the next prime minister.
He continued to hold meetings
Tuesday while the crisis flared.
Once Labor and Likud resolved
their differences, a joint L,abor-
Likud delegation was to meet with
him and recommend Shamir. Im
mediately after that, Herzog was to
recommend Shamir as the next
prime minister, setting the stage
for the new prime minister to pres
ent his government to the Knesset.
Should there have been no reso
lution by Thursday, rotation could
well be in trouble, and Peres would
remain in power with new elections
almost a certainty, probably within
three months.
Peres thought he had Shamir’s
agreement to reduce the number of
cabinet posts from 25 to 23, keep
ing Modai’s and one other cabinet
post open until January when pre
sumably a further effort would be
made to deal with the sticky Modai
issue. But, according to Bar-am,
Shamir withdrew his agreement,
setting the stage for what Bar-am
described Tuesday as a “critical
situation.”
Labor Party sources say that
what has in fact irritated Peres the
most was not the Modai issue, but
Shamir’s refusal to agree to the
outgoing prime minister’s proposal
to appoint Labor Party Cabinet
Secretary Yossi Beilin, Peres’ chief
aide, as the new Israeli ambassador
to Washington.
Indeed, one Labor Party man
made it clear Tuesday that should
Shamir agree to the Beilin appoint
ment, Peres would happily agree to
allow Modai in the new govern
ment as minister-without-portfolio.
Labor still insists that Modai not
be allowed back as either finance
minister or justice minister, the
two posts he held during Peres’
term as prime minister the past two
years.
L.abor and Likud are in dispute
over a few other issues having to do
with political appointments but
once the Modai and Beilin matters
are resolved, most politicians be
lieve that those more minor issues
will quickly be agreed upon.
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