The Washington Post, November 4th, 1988
Everyone from Ronald Reagan to Yasser Arafat wanted the Labor party to win this week's Israeli election. Everyone, that is, except a majority of Israelis. Inconveniently, they split their vote right down the middle. Well, not quite. They gave enough new support to nationalist and religious parties to give Labor's arch-rival, Likud, a good shot at forming the next coalition government. Israel's slight tilt to the nationalist and religious right will cause many hands to be wrung in the West. Commentators will note and self-declared "friends of Israel" will lament the nationalist, religious atavi...
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