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- <text id=92TT0169>
- <title>
- Jan. 27, 1992: World Notes:Israel
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Jan. 27, 1992 Is Bill Clinton For Real?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 38
- World Notes
- ISRAEL
- The Big Stall
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Ultimately, reality had to catch up with absurdity. Here was
- an Israeli government negotiating autonomy for the West Bank and
- Gaza Strip at peace talks in Washington, while a critical part
- of the coalition advocated either annexing the occupied
- territories or expelling the Palestinians en masse. Something
- had to go, and last week it was the government's extreme right
- wing. By announcing their intention to leave the ruling
- coalition this week, the ultranationalists of the Tehiya and
- Moledet parties virtually ensured the collapse of Prime Minister
- Yitzhak Shamir's government and set the stage for elections as
- early as May.
- </p>
- <p> Their maneuver is likely to stall the peace talks. Shamir
- promises to keep talking, but a U.S. official says the
- coalition's fall "will raise questions about the government's
- ability to negotiate and complicate its strategy formulation."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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