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Woodward South of Maple Mon.-Wed. & Sat. 10-6 Thur. & Fri. 10-9 Sun. 12-5 • 647.0550 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Flint Oak Brook Square 3192 Linden Road Across from Genessee Valley Mall • Mon., Fri. & Sat. 10-9 Tues., Wed. & Thur. 10-7 Sun. 12-5 • 733-8730 Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Shamir are about to perform one of the most bizarre acts in Israel's political history. liamentary majority in the July 1984 election. In an exquisitely balanced coalition agreement, cabinet seats were equally appor- tioned between the parties. But the centerpiece of the pact was rotation, a Sol- omonic formula that involved cutting the baby in half. Peres, it was agreed, would be prime minister for the first half of the government's life, switching roles with Shamir, vice prime minister and foreign minister, on Oct. 14, 1986, for the remainder of its term. In agreeing to rotate the leadership, Israel's politicians were embarking on un- charted territory. The only certainty, according to both the pundits and practitioners of Israeli politics, was that the government would fall before rotation. The Labor leader would not — could not — simply hand over the reins of office to the Likud. The most commonly held scenario was that Peres would consolidate his leader- ship and then, a respectable time before rotation, contrive to break up the coalition and bring down the government. The primary consideration was to find an electorally ac- ceptable issue on which to make the break and contain the political damage. Peres could not, after all, be seen to be blatantly flouting a con- tractual agreement, even one which did not carry the weight of law. But as each dispute flared into crisis, tearing at the fragile coalition fabric and threatening to bring down the government, Peres re- sisted the strident calls from within his own party to end the "marriage." It would be misleading to speak of high moral princi- ples in explaining why the unhappy and unnatural union has lasted so long. The reason, more likely, is to be found in a careful reading of the opinion polls. True, Peres is riding high, but his party has failed to capitalize on his dramatic transformation. At the same time, the Likud has shown signs of serious slip- page. If the polls are to be be- lieved, fresh elections today would not produce a result very different from the stalemate that led the two parties into their current predicament. Neither party can yet be sure of success. Peres, the object of ridicule and contempt among a large minority of Israelis when he entered the prime minister's office, swiftly set about the business of leadership. Despite the huge ideologi- cal gulf which separates Labor and Likud — they are unable even to agree where the country's international frontiers should run — he carefully defined areas of consensus with his new Likud coalition partners. His steady, measured ap- proach to the country's man- ifold economic, military and diplomatic problems calmed the national passions which had become dangerously overheated during seven years of roller-coasting Likud rule. The polls soon showed Peres shedding the old tricky-dealer, perennial-loser image. The new Peres constructed his leadership on the basis of solid achievement combined with a succession of high- profile, high-wire diplomatic encounters. He extricated Is- raeli forces from their disas- trous campaign in Lebanon, introduced a draconian au- sterity program that averted an economic catastrophe and opened the door to - improved relations with Africa, Asia and the Eastern bloc. While few of the dramatic .