The attitude of the Likud on the Peace Process

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The Likud is a political Israeli party created in 1973 by Menahem Begin. He is a major actor of Israel as the leader of the Irgun fighting against the Arabs and against the British Mandate before 1948, but also as a political leader of the opposition within his first party Herut, and then Likud. The right-wing in Israel was the opposition from 1948 until Begin was Prime Minister in 1977, and the Likud gave Israel several Prime Ministers after their leader Begin : Yitzhak Shamir, Benyamin Netanyahu, Ariel Sharon.

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[...] The problem is that the Likud now is behind the Peace Process. There are former treaties that we can not drop, and so a minimum of conditions for the Peace are already define, but the Likud is not ready to accept that. Netanyahu became Prime Minister right after Rabin, who did a big step for the Israelis, for the Palestinians and let's say for Peace even received the Nobel Price for Peace in 1994-. As we just said, Rabin opened the pave for Peace, and could have followed him. [...]

[...] But being pragmatic, he knows he would not have the support of is party if he goes to far. And according to what he believes anyway, himself will not go so far in order to keep the trust of his party, and in order to chose the future of his country Eretz Israel. What do we know on Netanyahu regarding the Peace Process ? While Peres was Prime Minister, “Netanyahu told American audiences that Israel would be committing political suicide if it gave up the West Bank. [...]

[...] During his campaign, we noticed an evolution on his position according to the Peace Process. In order to be candidate to the direct election for the Prime Minister, Netanyahu addressed the same to his own party. He was saying how opposed he was against Oslo. But then, a few days before the elections, revealed he would endorse the Oslo Accords if he was chosen by the Israeli people. How did this happen ? They are different reasons argued, that probably can explain this changing. [...]

[...] Did take this or that decision in order to have better scores in polls ? Of course we have to take this into consideration as he is a politician and a careerist. On the other hand, if he did not totally discard the Oslo Accords while he opposed to it before being Prime Minister, he did not implement it as he should or could have, and he continued the expansion of Jewish settlements. We are here going to see that some of the Likud leaders can be pragmatic like and so moderate their apprehension of the Peace Process, but also that the party is not yet ready for the Peace that the world and Avodah require. [...]

[...] He makes an amazing military career. In the Six Days War he led a great victory. He then becomes Israel's diplomat in Washington. After the October War, he joins Golda Meir's government and then becomes Prime Minister that he quits in 1977. In 1992 he is elected Prime Minister and leads the Oslo Accords. He will then receive the Nobel Price for Peace. On the 4th of November 2005, Rabin is killed by Igal Amir, a religious Israeli right-winged who called for the Greater Israel. [...]