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June 30, 1989 - Image 16

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ISRAEL

Coming: A Showdown
At The Likud Corral

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FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1989

erusalem — Next Wed-
nesday, July 5, Prime
Minister Shamir's
rivals in the Likud party will
try to deliver a crippling blow
to the government's peace in-
itiative, and to weaken and
eventually topple Shamir.
It is not Yitzhak Shamir's
first showdown; and unless
some dramatic event occurs in
the intervening days, he is
likely to emerge with both his
personal power and his
Palestinian elections proposal
intact.
The question is, can our ex-
tremely cautious, secretive
prime minister really lead
the way toward a settlement
with the Palestinians, or will
he soon go the way of Golda
Meir and Menachem Begin,
formidable Israeli leaders
who at the end of their
careers became victims of
historical circumstance?
My own feeling is that
Shamir is exactly the right
man at Israel's helm at the
right time, and that he will
somehow manage to navigate
the torturous waters in which
Israel now finds itself.
Shamir is definitely
vulnerable, and he is under
increasing attack from the
radical right and even from
the moderate right. But don't
believe the headlines that
Israel is on the verge of civil
war — the Jerusalem Post,
which is increasingly inac-
curate these days, quoted
Shamir in a page-one
headline this week as warn-
ing of a "civil war." What he
actually was talking about
was the vital need for unity at
this crossroads, and his im-
plied warning was of in-
cidents of fraternal fighting,
as when a Jewish settler at-
tacks a soldier. He wasn't
talking about Gettysburg.
Those inaccurate headlines
and reports, which are often
politically motivated and
reveal the wishful thinking of
some journalists, are part of
the reason for the widespread
mistrust and outright hatred
for the fourth estate in Israel.
It would take a book to ex-
plicate the psychological fac-
tors and the political game-
playing behind such jour-
nalism. But as Yosef Ben-
Aharon, the director-general
of the prime minister's office,
told me this week: "They [sen-
sationalist, politically-
motivated journalists] are our
worst enemy."
One example of
tenden-

cy to misreport events was
last week's funeral of slain
settler Freddy Rosenfeld, in
which dozens of settlers
engaged in a disgusting ver-
bal assault against the prime
minister while he addressed
the mourners, and later rock-
ed his car.

This was widely described
as a "spontaneous" action,
and thus indicative of a total
right-wing revolt against the
Shamir-led national unity
government, when it was ob-
vious to more objective to
more objective journalists
that the incident was pre-
planned, organized by the
hoodlum elements among the
settlers to whip up anti-Arab
hysteria. "Kahane's people
came with that intention," ac-
cording to Ben-Aharon.
But this fact was ignored,
while the media, dominated
by Labor-left people, had
another field day. "They will
exploit any action, as with the
settlers," says Ben-Aharon.
"These are people who will do
anything to say that our
moral fiber is being
destroyed."
Ben-Aharon, often describ-
ed as the eminence grise of
the Shamir government, has
himself been the frequent
target of vicious attacks in
the press, as in Uri Porat's ar-
ticle in Yediot last weekend
which claimed that Ben-
Aharon has now aggrandized
his powers, allegedly taking
on the role of chief govern-
ment spokesman in addition
to heading the prime
minister's bureau. But Ben-
Aharon, like his boss, has
learned to live with the cons-
tant, petty smears, to
disregard what Nietzsche
called "the flies in the
marketplace."
The current challenge to
Shamir within the Likud is a
joint venture by the leaders of
the three other party camps:
Ariel Sharon, David Levy
(known as "the peacock of
Beit She'an," his hometown)
and Yitzhak Modal, leader of
the Liberal faction. All three
are government ministers.
They are all ambitious men
who each believes that he
should lead the nation. Their
intramural intrigues and
political soap operas are
familiar and by now quite
boring to most Israelis.
They say that they are not
trying to get the Likud Cen-
tral Committee to vote down
the government peace in-
itiative, but to amend it —
which amounts to the same
thing.

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