Friday, July 3, 1981 5 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Hegemony of Begin and Likud Is Assured by Religious Parties (Continued from Page 1) ante, it also applied to re- petitive prophecies that a new government based on a slim majority would be un- stable — which would also be a condition if Peres and the Labor Alignment were to secure the presently un- attainable support of the NRP. The 1977 Begin triumph was accompanied with predictions that his government could not last six months to a year. Begin and Likud managed to re- main in power longer than any previous Israeli ad- nistration, and the _ __arch for power could nul- lify the prophecies of im- pending doom for a slim- margined new government. 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Unlike in the present Knesset, where the main opposition party (Labor) fielded only 32 members, Labor would have some 49 in the 10th Knesset, and these would be con- sistently backed by the single-seaters of the Civil Rights Movements, Shinui and Telem — giv- ing a impressively solid phalanx of opposition seats. The Rakah Com- munists would also be lined up against a Likud- led government, and thus the government would constantly be prey to par- liamentary challenges. All of its members would have to be on hand virtu- ally all of the time in order to stave off snap no-confidence votes. Begin apparently hopes to set up a quick alliance of Likud, NRP and Agudat Is- rael which will give him around the coveted 61-seat mark. Begin will also look to Tami (Aharon Abu- Hatzeira's party) and Moshe Dayan (Telem's lone Knesseter) to provide the government with a mod- icum of stability. As far as Labor is con- cerned, it will look to Aguda, rather than to the politically hawkish NRP, to break away from the pro- Likud religious alliance. The NRP is seen as virtu- ally committed to serving with Begin rather than with Labor. Even though this might well not be the pref- erence of the party's titular head, Burg, he is no longer the all-powerful boss in the sadly-reduced National Religious Party. Much of the power now resides with Education Minister Zevu- lun Hammer and Gush Emunim leader Haim Druckman — and they want to go with Likud and not with Labor Many small parties ap- pear to have been wiped out in a massive move by the public towards the two big blocs. Among those to bite the dust are the Independent Liberals and Shelli, the left-wing party. They scored one and two seats respec- tively in the 1977 elections. Shiuni held on by the skin of their teeth. Only Aguda of the existing small parties did well, while of the new- born small parties, Tami did farily well and Dayan's Telem did abysmally badly. The NRP, as expected, lost votes both to Tami and Tehiya and is severely re- duced. NRP leaders took comfort, however, from the fact that even in its shrun- ken state their party re- mains virtually indispens- able in coalition-making. Labor's performance, viewed on its own merits and in disregard of coalition-making pros- pects, was impressive in- deed. The party added 50 percent to its 1977 total of seats. Likud's increase' from 45 (with Shlomzion) in 1977 to 48 may be seen as another stage in the steady and con- stant growth of the right- centrist bloc ever since 1965, when Herut and the Liberals first joined to- gether to form "Gahal," the forerunner of the Likud. Small party representa- tives spoke bitterly of "treachery" by the Labor Alignment. Sheli's Meir Pail said Labor's insistence on the need for a large majority to oust Begin had attracted many voters who had not realized how essen- tial it was to have smaller parties in the Knesset to act as a brake on monolithic parties. Shulamit Aloni's Civil Rights Movement was re- duced to a one-woman re- presentation. She appeared shocked at the dashing of her hopes to lead a sizeable party whose voice would be heard on social affairs. Shmuel Flatto-Sharon, whose ousting from the Knesset may mean he is open to extradition to France on embezzlement charges as well as liable to prison and fines in Is- rael, walked out of a tele- vision panel show on small parties when the projection results were announced. Flatto-Sharon's recent Yasir Arafat said he pre- ferred a Begin victory. "For us, it is better to have Begin because Begin uses America's iron fist without any gloves while Peres uses the same fist covered in silk. We need this ugly face of Begin .. . We Palestinians don't have any illusioiRs. But maybe the re-election of Begin will give the rest of the Arab na- tion a salutary shock." Arafat said. suspension from the Knes- set after he was convicted of election .fraud was over- turned over the weekend by the Israeli Supreme Court. The court ruled the Knesset should not have acted before Flatto-Sharon's case is ap- pealed. Israeli voters, how- ever, removed him from office on Tuesday. Over the weekend, Labor's Shimon Peres an- nounced that former Pre- mier Yitzhak Rabin, a bit- ter foe of Peres within the Labor Alignment, would be Labor's Defense Minister if a Labor government were elected. Rabin replaced former Gen. Haim Barley in the second spot on the Labor list in order to attract more votes. Peres also said that if elected he would meet with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat im- mediately to patch up their differences. 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