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Article: Israel moves right.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- June 30, 1989
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JERUSALEM-Subtle but important political changes inside Israel have been overshadowed by the violence of the Palestinian intifada and the "moderation" of Yasir Arafat. The hard and central fact is that the center of Israeli politics has moved solidly to the right on economic matters as well as security issues, while the socialist Labor Party, under Shimon Peres, may be heading the way of Britain's Labour Party and the U.S. Democratic Party on a national level.
Recent polls suggest Labor has lost between 10 and 25 per cent of its popular support, while Yitzhak Shamir's rightist Likud has gained about 7 per cent, This trend is probably due to the fact that ...
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