Should I Stay
Or Should I Go?

Netanyahu ministers are
in and out of the
government.

INA FRIEDMAN

ISRAEL CORRESPONDENT

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Quite suddenly last week, Prime
Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's
two-month-old government
broke out in a rash of bumps
and blotches. Whether the in-
stitutional equivalent of a pass-
ing "childhood disease" or signs
of genuine obstacles, it is far too
early to say. Collectively, how-
ever, they left the public won-
dering if Mr. Netanyahu would
spend the next four years gov-
erning or putting out his own
brush fires.
In the first crisis, Foreign
Minister David Levy, once
again, retired in a huff to his
home town of Beit Shean. This
time, however, Mr. Levy was
backed — some say prodded —
by senior staff members. They
complained of being neutralized
by the prime minister by exclu-
sively conducting foreign affairs
himself and through his chief
political adviser, Dore Gold.
As but one example, Mr. Ne-
tanyahu did not include a sin-
gle foreign ministry diplomat in
the large entourage that re-
cently went with him to Jordan.
Also, the ministry has been

David Levy has
threatened to resign
three times in eight
weeks on the job.

frozen out of contacts with the
Palestinians.
The prime minister's unre-
H pentant response to the com-
plaints was to remind Mr. Levy
that "there's only one prime
minister." Thus, Mr. Levy
sulked home, missing three key
government meetings last week.
Then he promised to resign un-
less he and his ministry are giv-
en their due. Shas leader Arye
Der'i apparently talked him out
of the threat and Mr. Levy went
off on a private visit to the Unit=
ed States.
The bad blood between
Messrs. Levy and Netanyahu
goes back to "Bibigate." A few
years ago, with the two vying for
the Likud leadership, Mr. Ne-
tanyahu essentially accused Mr.
Levy of trying to blackmail him
with the infamous "steamy Cas-
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