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mon Peres both said, in separate in-
terviews with the media, that a unity
government is a "national need."
The Likud-Alignment summit
followed the initiative by Herzog who
called them to form a unity govern-
ment.
Before Shamir and Peres began
their discussions, Herzog started his
formal consultations with the two
parties. First to meet with the
President was a Labor Party delega-
tion led by Secretary-General Haim
Bar-Lev. The Laborites asked Herzog
to choose Peres to form the next gov-
ernment, since the Alignment, with
44 Knesset seats, will be the largest
party in the parliament.
The Likud delegation, headed by
MK Ronni Milo, followed. They
asked Herzog to delay asking anyone
to form a government until the
Likud-Alignment negotiations are
completed.
Herzog also met with represen-
tatives of the National Religious
Party, the Communist Party and
Agudat Israel. He issued a statement
that he would not meet with Rabbi
Meir Kahane, leader of the Kach
Party which won one seat in the
Knesset in last week's elections,
until Kahane retracted his racist
statements about Israeli Arabs and
derogatory remarks about the
President.
Kahane, who warned that he
would break into the President's re-
sidence if Herzog did not meet with
him, protested peacefully outside the
President's residence Wednesday
morning and then left.
Significantly, in the Labor-
Likud unity talks Shamir did not in-
sist on Likud's leadership of a unity
government as a condition, while
Peres, in effect, did make Labor's
leadership a precondition. Pressed on
this specific point by reporters out-
side the President's residence,
Shamir's reply was: "This is a matter
for talks and negotiations. We will
discuss everything. Different ideas
could come up . ."
When a reporter asked, "So you
do not reject (a Peres premiership)
out of hand?" Shamir replied: "I
didn't say anything. We will discuss
everything."
Peres, questioned on the same
issue, replied: "If I heard right, Mr.
Shamir said he is ready to honor the
election results and to be a member
— that is for Likud to be a member —
of a government which would in ef-
fect reflect the election results. If so, I
see this as a great step forward .. .
We would then have to discuss joint
policy lines . ."
Earlier, on the same subject,
after emerging from Labor's meeting
with Herzog, Peres said: "There are
election results and all parties are
required to accept them with love and
without seeking to overturn them."
In other words, as leader of the
largest faction — Labor won 44
Knesset seats and Likud 41 — Peres
should be Premier of the projected
unity government.
At their informal meetings with
Herzog, the President told both dele-
gations that he would not discuss
"personnel composition" on this occa-
sion, but rather the possibility in
principle of a unity government
which, he felt, was what the people
wanted and what the nation needed.
Peres told the waiting reporters
that Labor's reply had been "un-
quivocal. Like the President, we too
feel that all the nation wants a unity
government and we are going to re-
spond to this desire and to this na-
tional need and set up a government
that will unify . . . that can tackle the
major problems . . . If the task is
granted to me, I will attempt to
Arabs in the territories
were disappointed by the
election results.
create a national unity government
including Likud . . . If the President
imposes that task on me I shall ap-
proach Shamir and suggest that we
meet alone . .."
Shamir, facing the same battery
of reporters, said the differences be-
tween the parties "are not so deep as
to be unbridgeable, and .. therefore
a unity government is feasible and
realistic."
As major problems to be tackled,
Shamir cited the economy and Leba-
non, on both of which, he said, there
were "no basic differences of princi-
ple" between the major parties. He
also listed the "need to strengthen
our democracy, by introducing cer-
tain changes."
Shamir is known to feel strongly
that the proliferation of minor par-
ties must be prevented in the future
by constitutional reform. He believes
the present system has become vir-
tually unworkable and the govern-
ment — any government — can
hardly do its job.
Later, Shamir's office put out a
clarification to the effect that the
Premier had certainly not "foregone
the Premiership" by his failure
categorically to reject the idea of
Peres leading a unity government.
Meanwhile, West Bank Arab
leaders were disappointed by the in-
conclusive results of Israel's elec-
tions. While most of them had taken
an aloof attitude, maintaining that
there is little difference between
Labor and Likud as far as Palesti-
nians are concerned, it was clear that
a Labor victory had been hoped for to
ease the atmosphere in the territory
and perhaps increase chances for a
political settlement.
Mayor Elias Freij of Bethlehem,
one of the few West Bank leaders who
had publicly expressed his hope for a
Labor victory before the elections,