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…re had been followed — 24 times — under Bibi. But when I asked a United Torah Judaism leader why he’d seemed happy when Likud had waved it through, he replied: “Past sins cannot pardon future ones.” Eli Suissa, one of the Shas ministers in the cabinet, took his side, saying: “Eve...

…pocritically going through the motions of calling for restraint and pretending to be unaware that the mobs were full of Likud voters. “They’re his people,” he said, “and he knows it.” But he was relishing the idea of taking on Bibi in the next election, due in about a year’s tim...

…fense of the peace process, and against the tide of hatred on the right. It was the idea of two people: Shlomo Lahat, a Likud mayor of Tel Aviv who now backed Oslo, and a French Jewish businessman named Jean Frydman, a friend of Shimon Peres whom I had got to know and like. But i...

…stein, the attorney general, agreed. Even though he was an observant, Orthodox Jew, and more sympathetic politically to Likud than Labor, he concluded that we needed to include “as few Arabs as possible” under Israeli sovereignty, and to cede the outer villages to the Palestinian...

… deputy-head of Shin Bet. There was another important, if less obvious, inclusion: Dan Meridor. A leading member of the Likud before he’d formed the Center Party at the last election, Dan was not just a friend. He was a man of rock-solid integrity, with a strong moral and ethical...

…mits to take in more than two dozen adjacent Arab villages on the West Bank. No Israeli government since then, Labor or Likud, had deviated from a shared pledge that Jerusalem would remain Israel’s undivided, sovereign capital under any eventual peace agreement. Yet when I met C...

…tiations with the Arabs. I was never going to get the backing of many West Bank settlers, or of core supporters of the Likud and parties even further to the right. But I would need to make at least some dent in Bibi’s hold on the Russian voters who had supported him by a wide ma...

… murder, I’d gone to see Zevulun Hammer, the leader of the National Religious Party. It had been part of both Labor and Likud governments ever since 1948, though not Rabin’s. The NRP, too, had been drifting steadily rightward. But it still basically subscribed the idea of a stron...

…tine’s status at the United Nations. UN General Assembly Resolution 67/19: Status of Palestine in the United Nations. Likud Party leader Netanyahu wins parliamentary elections. Prime Minister Salam Fayyad resigns. Rami Hamdallah is sworn in as Palestinian Prime Minister. Rami...

… of peace talks, had been the big winner in the election. It had gained seven seats and now had only two fewer than the Likud. I did not specifically mention Shas. But I said: “I tell you here that the time has come to end divisions. The time has come to make peace among ourselv...

…ibi’s ministers to resign. He was openly flirting with the idea of joining a new centrist party that had been formed by Likud’s Dan Meridor. Bibi struck back with a mixture of subtlety and venom. He fired Mordechai, accusing him of being driven by personal ambition. Then he offer...

…proval to give him the villages. As news arrived in the chamber of gunfire just a couple of miles away, it was not just Likud or other right-wing MKs who were furious. I certainly was. Yet I also knew that the price of losing the vote would be the fall of the government. We did w...

…re had been followed — 24 times — under Bibi. But when I asked a United Torah Judaism leader why he’d seemed happy when Likud had waved it through, he replied: “Past sins cannot pardon future ones.” Eli Suissa, one of the Shas ministers in the cabinet, took his side, saying: “Eve...

…t running the country. He would be outmaneuvered, overshadowed and ultimately controlled by the “real strongman” in the Likud: Arik Sharon. I said I thought we were again underestimating Bibi’s strength, as well as the effect of the country’s new electoral system. He was the firs...

…um-enrichment program to develop a nuclear weapon, an issue that the two will discuss during Obama's visit. Netanyahu's Likud party emerged from elections last month as the largest bloc in Israel's parliament, meaning that he will serve another term as prime minister. But HOUSE O...