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Crumbling Coalition

David Landau June 15, 2000

The coincidence could hardly have been lost on Ehud Barak: As President Hafez Assad was laid to rest in Syria, Israel\’s Shas Party appeared to lay the premier\’s \”peace coalition\” to rest.The fervently Orthodox party\’s Council of Sages, headed by spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, sounded what could be the first notes of the prime minister\’s coalition\’s death knell Tuesday. The council ordered Shas ministers to hand in their resignations at Sunday\’s Cabinet meeting.

Israel’s Great Divide

David Landau May 27, 1999

As the election dust settles and coalition-building tensions grow, religion is emerging as the single most dominant factor in Israel\’s current political cataclysm.

Israel’s Best Weapon: Middle East Peace

Ofra Bengio December 4, 1997

Anger over the stalled Mideast peace process has clearlycontributed to Arab states\’ reluctance to help the United Statesdeter Saddam Hussein. That is one reason the United States is nowpressing Israel for a serious and credible plan for withdrawing fromthe West Bank, it has been widely reported. Yet the Israeligovernment and some hard-line American supporters not only mistakenlydeny the connection between the peace process and the maintenance ofan effective anti-Saddam coalition, but they also neglect the factthat such a coalition is in Israel\’s vital interests.

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