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- <title>
- Apr. 05, 1993: Political Cross Fire
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Apr. 05, 1993 The Generation That Forgot God
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 17
- WORLD
- Political Cross Fire
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Netanyahu and Weizman, poles apart, gain office in Israel
- </p>
- <p> One is a hawk, the other a dove. Each has now soared to great
- political heights in Israel. Former Deputy Foreign Minister
- Benjamin Netanyahu, 43, was elected chief of the opposition
- Likud bloc, and ultraleftist politician Ezer Weizman, 68, was
- chosen by the Knesset to be Israel's next President, a largely
- ceremonial post.
- </p>
- <p> With the articulate and popular Netanyahu at the head of
- the opposition, the government of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
- will probably face a tougher time selling its policies.
- Trickiest will be Rabin's proposal to return at least part of
- the Golan Heights to Syria, a move opposed by Netanyahu and
- about half the population. Concessions for peace will have an
- eloquent advocate in Weizman, a former Defense Minister and
- chief of the air force and one of Israel's most flamboyant
- politicians. Once an avid hawk, Weizman now supports withdrawal
- from the Golan, direct negotiations with the P.L.O. and the
- establishment of a Palestinian state.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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