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Yitzhak Rabin: Fighting for his
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ake it or leave it!" is
how Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin pre-
sented his compromise
proposal to end the coalition
crisis that abruptly shifted
Israel's attention from
progress in the peace talks
in Washington to the war-
ring factions in Israel's own
government.
Many Israelis were
incredulous last week when
Shas Interior Minister
Aryeh Deri announced he
would resign on Sunday
unless Education Minister
Shulamit Aloni was
removed from her post by
then. This was at least the
fifth time in the 10-month-
old Rabin government that
Shas had demanded Mrs.
Aloni's dismissal.
But each time before, a
face-saving compromise had
been found. So at first, it
was expected that the cur-
rent crisis could quickly be
defused, especially since the
reason for its present erup-
tion was not clear.
In the past, Shas's
demands had directly fol-
lowed some impolitic
remark from Mrs. Aloni
that Mr. Deri or his party's
patron, Rabbi Ovadiah
Yosef, had complained had
offended Orthodox sensi-
bilities. The current ultima-
tum seemed to have materi-
alized out of nowhere, and
Shas spokesmen were hav-
ing a hard time convincing
the public that Ms. Aloni's
disposal was a just and
pressing issue.
But, everyone soon agreed
that Shas's threat to bolt
the coalition was genuine.
Mr. Rabin initially assumed
that the solution was for
Mrs. Aloni to eat crow. In an
obvious swipe at Meretz, the
Shulamit Aloni: Heck no, she
won't go.
prime minister told the
Labor Party's Central
Committee, "It's hard to
believe that people who
brandish the slogan of peace
can... create problems which
could lead to dismantling
the coalition and halting the
peace process."
But when the Meretz
ministers showed no signs
of weakening and Mrs.
Aloni made it clear that
Meretz had neither precipi-
tated the crisis nor would be \_\
the only party to pay the
price for ending it, Mr.
Rabin proposed a compro-
mise: Exchange ministry
chairs.
Shas is having a
hard time
convincing the
public that Ms.
Aloni's disposal is
a pressing issue.
Ms. Aloni would give up
the education portfolio, but
remain minister of culture
and receive the communica-
tions portfolio, with control
over all the electronic
media. Meretz's Amnon
Rubinstein would become
education minister. And the
present communications
minister, Moshe Shahal
(who is also minister of
police), would receive
Rubinstein's energy portfo-
lio.
Meretz accepted the com-
promise. Shas rejected it,
demanding that the educa-
tion portfolio be removed
not just from Mrs. Aloni but
from Meretz as a whole,
which Mr. Deri character-
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