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To The Polls
For Shimon Peres, there's no reason to delay
elections any longer.
LARRY DERFNER ISRAEL CORRESPONDENT
rime Minister Shimon
Peres was giving himself
until Feb. 15 to announce
his decision, but Labor Par-
ty insiders say he's already made
up his mind: Elections for prime
minister and Knesset will not take
place as scheduled on Oct. 29, but
in May, most likely on May 28.
For the last two months, party
leaders have been pressuring Mr.
Peres to call early elections. The
Rabin assassination swung pub-
lic opinion massively in Mr. Peres'
and the Labor Party's favor, and
the thinking in the party was:
Why wait?
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this government has no legitima-
cy, so what objection can they
have now?"
Besides taking advantage of
post-assassination popularity, the
decision to move up elections was
expected give Mr. Peres and La-
bor another major boost: It would
remove the future of the Golan
Heights as a pressing campaign
issue.
The price of success with the
Syrians at Wye Plantation is Is-
rael's readiness to part with the
Golan. While Mr. Peres appears
willing to pay that price, a major-
ity of the Israeli public remains
hesitant. Labor Party secretary-
general Nissim Zvili publicly op-
posed Mr. Peres' decision to push
for peace with Syria this year, say-
ing an agreement that included
withdrawal from the Golan would
be "the worst thing to try to take
to the voters."
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Rafael Eitan: No. 2 spot.
Mr. Peres held back, arguing
that a campaign now would stall
the negotiations with Syria, so he
didn't want to call early elections
unless it became clear the Syrian
talks were slowing to a halt any-
way. With no discernable progress
being made at Wye Plantation,
there was nothing holding the
prime minister back anymore.
Like everyone else in the coun-
try, the Likud was going on the
assumption that the elections
would be moved up. Officially the
party welcomed the early demise
of the government and a chance
to take power, but was not con-
vincing. Polls showed Likud
leader Binyamin Netanyahu trail-
ing Mr. Peres by 15-20 percent,
and the left winning a Knesset
majority.
For two weeks, the Likud had
been trying to intimidate Mr.
Peres out of calling early elections
by accusing him repeatedly of "try-
ing to cynically exploit the Rabin
assassination."
Mr. Peres brushed off his ac-
cusers. "In a moment i'm going to
cry," he said. 'They're always say-
David Levy: Formed his own party.
Instead of trying to sell the elec-
torate a peace with Syria it doesn't
seem ready to buy, Mr. Peres can
now say, as he has been saying,
that he is seeking a mandate be-
fore making fateful decisions on
the Golan, and before entering the
final status talks with the Pales-
tinians on the territories, settle-
ments and Jerusalem. Recent
polls showed that the public found
this the most agreeable justifica-
tion for early elections.
Meanwhile, the Likud was try-
ing to figure out its post-Oslo, post-
assassination identity. Talk
among Mr. Netanyahu and his
confidants was of "pragmatism,"
and "accepting reality." Likud
leaders explained that the party
still thought the Oslo Accord was
a bad agreement, but that it
would not try to roll back Pales-
tinian autonomy in Gaza and the
West Bank.
Some of the more classic ideo-
logues in the Likud insisted the
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