Israeli Politics

Sharon Cobbles A Coaliton, The Labor party approved negotiations to enter into a coalition with the Likud party Saturday night. Negotiating teams from the two parties met shortly thereafer for a first round of talks. The Likud negotiating team was Yoram Raved, Tzipi Livni, Gideon Sa'ar, and Yisrael Maimon. For Labor, Dalia Itzhik, Haim Ramon, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, and Yoram Dori were negotiating. At the beginning of the meeting, Dalia Itzhik demanded that negotiations to join the coalition be opened with Shinui as well. (Link Requires free registration and cookies enabled)
09-Dec-04, Amotz Asa-El, Jerusalem Post, Shinui? Reflections on the revolution in Israe, However, there was also a downside to his popularity; as the writer of works like Why I Am Agnostic, that self-made attorney became suspect in the Republican Party even though he served it well as a spokesman and attorney-general (in Illinois). Asked how much it cost him to assemble the rich library he had in his home, Ingersoll retorted that it cost him the governorship of Illinois, if not the presidency of the US. In a way, that is also what happened to Tommy Lapid. THE MAN who last week was outmaneuvered by Ariel Sharon - the one he mistook for an ally - owes his meteoric, if belated, political success to his secularism, eloquence and bellicosity. (Link Requires free registration and cookies enabled)
11-Dec-04, Maariv (Israel), Peres suspected of forging party document, Labor’s internal party court has instructed the party’s legal counsel, Attorney Eldad Yaniv, to file a complaint with the police over the alleged use of a forged document by party chairman Shimon Peres. Yesterday the party forum heard an appeal by Peres, against a previous decision by the party’s lower internal court, which ordered him not to cancel next week’s planned central committee meeting. The meeting is due to vote on when the primaries for party leader will take place, and Peres, as interim leader wants to delay them for as long as possible.