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Article: World Likud is new arena for internal party feud
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- Jerusalem Post
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- December 21, 1997
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SARAH HONIG
Jerusalem Post
12-21-1997
A few weeks ago when the row over lists of delegates to the World Likud convention first came up and was brought before Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, he was reported to have protested furiously: "The World Likud? I should really be involved with that? You are dragging me there, too? Don't I have anything better to do?"
In one sense, his exclamation spoke for the Likud mainstream, where few know much about the World Likud, and those who do have a vague realization it exists ascribe very little importance to the near-esoteric organization, which opens its convention today.
The World Likud is not the party we know from the Knesset. Rather, it is a ...