Likud leader Menachem Beigin found his policies challenged this week by his longtime rival. Free Center leader Shmual Tamir, At a Likud faction meeting in the Knesset, Tamir suggested that the post-Yom Kippur War reality required new policies from Likud if it purported to be an alternative to the party in power. But Beigin reaffirmed his opposition to any territorial compromise on the West Bank. The session–the first of several faction meetings intended to review Likud’s political posture–revealed basic differences between the parties and personalities who comprise the bloc.
Liberal Party leader Elimelech Rimalt spoke out against Sebastia-type unauthorized settlement projects (which many Herut and other Likud Knesseters supported). He said he would come out publicly against any future such attempt to defy the government and the army. Zalman Shuval of the State List, and Avraham Yoffe of the Greater Israel Movement both agreed with Rimalt. Beigin said he personally could never refuse to join with pioneers who sought to settle the land of Israel.
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