12 Friday, August 5, 1983
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Labor Party Miffed by New Rabin-Peres Quarrel
By MOSHE RON
The Jewish News Special
Israel Correspondent
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Rabin and Shimon Peres.
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when Rabin was prime
minister and Peres his de-
fense minister, really never
ended.
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government. This same
situation occurred in the
last Knesset elections in
1981, although at the last
moment some kind of
"peace" was reached be-
tween the two Labor lead-
ers. Peres remained number
one on the list and Rabin be-
came number two.
For the last two years this
"peace" was preserved by
the two sides. Peres, the
chairman of the Labor
Party and opposition leader,
is trying to meet with lead-
ing members of other par-
ties, even of those belonging
to the Likud coalition (Ezer
Weizman, etc.). He hopes to
draw some Knesset mem-
bers from the coalition in
order to bring down the pre-
sent government and even-
tually form a new Labor
government.
Lately, Peres met again
wtih Weizman, who had
left the Herut Party and
resigned from his post as
defense minister because
of differences with Pre-
mier Menahem Begin.
Some leading members of
the Herut Party are at-
tempting to bring Weiz-
man back into the party
leadership, but Begin
remains unforgiving.
Weizman is still a popular
political figure and intends
to return to political life. A
few days before the death of
Deputy Premier Simha
Ehrlich, the late leader of
the Liberal Party, he met
with Weizman to discuss
with him the question of his
return to politics either
through the Herut or the
Liberal Party.
Peres is a 'friend of Weiz-
man and lately they met
several times; they may
have also discussed Weiz-
man's political aims. This
probably annoyed Rabin,
who fears that Peres may
have promised Weizman
the status of number two in
a future Labor government,
which would mean the post
of Minister of Defense prom-
ised to Rabin.
The sudden and unex-
pected quarrel between
Peres and Rabin broke out
over the question of Israel's
withdrawal to a security
zone of 28 miles in southern
Lebanon and certain "red
lines" between the Syrians
and Lebanese. Peres said
that "red lines" are neces-
sary, whereas Rabin main-
tains they would be a mis-
take.
Peres published an ar-
ticle in the Haaretz
newspaper stressing that
these "red lines" should
be a warning to Syria that
Israel would react
promptly and severely if
Syrian or PLO units
would cross these lines.
Rabin reacted very
strongly.
Peres brought up the
matter in the party bureau
and his plan was adopted by
a majority of 49 votes with
two abstentions. Rabin did
not participate in the vot-
ing.
Before this meeting, some
party leader tried to inter-
vene in order to prevent an
'open rift. A delegation of
three Knesset members,
Moshe Shaclial, Aharon
Nachmias and Arik
Nechamkin, met separately
with Peres and Rabin.
Other Knesset members
threatened that if there
were no agreement between
the two leaders, they would
call for a party meeting to
call them to order.
Knesset member
Chaim Rimon said that
the party had to under-
take necessary steps in
order to prevent a new
clash between Peres and
Rabin and if the party
leadership was unable to
avoid such a situation, it
should resign.
Knesset member Yeches-
kiel Zakai said, "We had be-
lieved that ..'Oe clash be-
tween Peres and Rabin be-
longs to the past. There is no
hope for the party to return
to power if this clash is re-
newed."
Some members of the cen-
tral committee of the Labor
Party would like to see
former Israeli President
Yitzhak Navon as head of
the party. Till now, Navon
has refused to hear of it, but
SHIMON PERES
the Peres-Rabin conflict
might hasten such a move.
It is assumed that Rabin
renewed the rift because of
the meetings of Peres with
Weizman and because of
Peres' decline in the Isiraeli
polls whereas Rabin's lead-
ership has better chances to
win the next elections than
under the leadership of
Peres.
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