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Article: NETANYAHU MAKING POLICY HIS WAY : CHASM BETWEEN PRIME MINISTER, FOREIGN MINISTRY WIDENS.(NEWS)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- August 11, 1996
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Byline: Neil MacFarquhar The New York Times
Sweeping through the grounds of King Hussein's palace in Amman, Jordan, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel was accompanied by a retinue of about 25 senior aides and Israeli businessmen that was remarkable for one glaring omission. Not a single representative of the Israeli Foreign Ministry was present, aside from the departing ambassador.
The slight helped provoke a public mudslinging festival between the prime minister's office and the Foreign Ministry, something of a tradition in Israel. More important, it underscored how Netanyahu retains unprecedented control over government policy even by Israeli ...