在线国产一区二区_成人黄色片在线观看_国产成人免费_日韩精品免费在线视频_亚洲精品美女久久_欧美一级免费在线观看

  Home>News Center>World
         
 

Israel's Peres quits Labor Party to back Sharon
(AP)
Updated: 2005-12-01 08:42

Bitter over his ouster as Labor Party chief, Shimon Peres quit his political home of six decades Wednesday to campaign for Ariel Sharon's new party, saying the prime minister is the best choice to lead Israel to peace with the Palestinians.

Peres' defection was an important coup for Sharon in the scramble by the major parties to recruit high-profile supporters during a political realignment the past three weeks as the country prepares for parliamentary elections in March.

Many Israelis respect Peres, an 82-year-old former prime minister, as an elder statesman and peacemaker, but they remain wary of his dovish politics.

His resignation from Labor could contribute to the view that he is a political opportunist. Peres also brings with him a reputation as a perennial loser at the polls who led Labor to five electoral defeats and lost a race this month to lead the party into a sixth election.

"This has not been an easy decision for me, but I found myself faced with the contradiction between the party of which I am a member and the requirements of the political situation," Peres said. "Without ignoring the deep connection that I have to the party's historical path and its members, I must prefer the more urgent and greater consideration ... My party activity has come to an end."


Veteran Israeli statesman Shimon Peres addresses the media during a news conference in his office in Tel Aviv November 30, 2005.[Reuters]
Under a reported deal worked out with the prime minister, Peres will support Kadima, the centrist party Sharon formed last week after leaving the hard-line Likud, but he will not officially join the party and he will not run for a seat in parliament, where he has served since 1959.

In return, Sharon 錕斤拷 if re-elected 錕斤拷 will give Peres a senior post in his next government, possibly putting him in charge of peace talks with the Palestinians and neighboring Arab states.

His voice shaking with emotion, Peres said the decision to leave Labor was not easy, but he believed Sharon was best suited to pursue a peace deal with the Palestinians.

"I am convinced that he is determined, as I am, to continue with the peace process and restart it immediately after the elections," he said. "I decided, therefore, to support his election and cooperate with him to realize these goals."

Peres' critics said he was more concerned with remaining at the center of Israeli politics than with ending the Mideast conflict.

"You can present everything as a principle ... The peace process is important, but more important is: 'Where do I stand with the peace process? Is peace being done without me?'" said Shlomo Ben-Ami, a former Labor foreign minister.

Despite their differences, Peres and Sharon forged a friendship over the decades that they turned into a political partnership as Sharon fought attempts by Likud hard-liners to torpedo his Gaza withdrawal plan. Sharon has said Israel would have to leave parts of the West Bank 錕斤拷 while maintaining major settlement blocs 錕斤拷 in any final peace deal with the Palestinians.

Yossi Beilin, a former Peres ally who now leads the dovish Yahad Party, said Sharon has never given Peres much authority in past alliances and he doubted Sharon was interested in pursuing a real peace deal with the Palestinians.

"In my view, joining Sharon for the peace camp, for anybody from the peace camp, is a big, big, big mistake," he said.

Peres has been a major figure in Israel since the country's creation in 1948, when he was a young aide to founding Prime Minister David Ben Gurion. He helped create the framework for the Israeli army, developed Israel's nuclear capacity in the 1950s and was a key player in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process in the 1990s.

"He's been in politics ever since Truman threw the bomb on Hiroshima," Ben-Ami told The Associated Press.

Peres is feted abroad as a statesman, and shared the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize with Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

But at home, he is renowned for his multiple electoral defeats. He served three brief stints as prime minister, twice replacing Rabin and once as part of a rotation agreement with a hard-line rival after a deadlocked election.

He also lost a parliamentary vote for the country's ceremonial presidency, an office that would have given him a dignified exit from politics.

In another shocking defeat, this month Peres lost the Labor Party primary to union leader Amir Peretz, who immediately began working to rejuvenate the party, recruiting academics, a prominent journalist and a reclusive millionaire to join its parliamentary slate. Peretz's moves appear to be working, according to a series of favorable polls.

Peres was insulted when Peretz refused to guarantee him the second slot on Labor's parliamentary list. After Sharon quit Likud last week and formed the Kadima, Peres began talks to leave Labor.

The defection could damage the party by persuading older Labor supporters of European origin, already wary of Peretz's Middle Eastern ethnicity and his union roots, to vote for Sharon, Ben-Ami said.

Peres has jumped ship before. In 2000, rebuffed by then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak in his attempt to recapture the Labor Party nomination, Peres approached the dovish Meretz Party and offered to run as its candidate. Meretz refused. And in 1965, Peres briefly followed Ben Gurion into a new party called Rafi, which was later folded into Labor.



AIDS awareness campaign
Saddam trial resumes
Israel's Peres may quit Labour for Sharon party
 
  Today's Top News     Top World News
 

China to keep HIV carrier cases below 1.5m by 2010

 

   
 

China rules out meeting with Koizumi

 

   
 

US, China urged to cooperate in energy

 

   
 

Virus outbreaks may change poultry raising

 

   
 

Toxins make second China city cut water

 

   
 

China cars no threat to Japan: report

 

   
  Bush maps out Iraq war strategy
   
  Iran to resume nuclear talks with EU
   
  Israel's Peres quits Labor Party to back Sharon
   
  Merkel, facing Iraq hostage crisis, charts course for Germany
   
  Syria fighting probe of assassination
   
  Fox begins last year as Mexico's president
   
 
  Go to Another Section  
 
 
  Story Tools  
   
  News Talk  
  Are the Republicans exploiting the memory of 9/11?  
Manufacturers, Exporters, Wholesalers - Global trade starts here.
Advertisement
         
主站蜘蛛池模板: 国产欧美第一页 | 精品一区二区三区在线观看视频 | 国产日韩精品视频 | 色婷婷综合久久久中文字幕 | 精品色区 | 午夜激情免费在线观看 | 美女视频一区二区三区 | 日本www在线| 国产一区二区在线播放 | 亚洲精品高清视频 | www.毛片| 日韩精品免费观看 | 亚洲综合在线一区二区三区 | 国产午夜精品久久 | 国产精品久久久久久久久久久新郎 | 日本色一区 | www.毛片| 视频一区 中文字幕 | 欧美日韩亚洲三区 | 极品美女国产精品免费一区 | 亚洲一区av| 无套内谢孕妇毛片免费看红桃影视 | 草在线视频 | a级片网站 | 亚洲黄色免费在线看 | 国产成人综合网 | 一区二区精品 | 国产精品99久久久久久久久久久久 | 狠狠草视频 | 97久久超碰国产精品电影 | 天天射欧美 | 欧美a√| 免费看色 | 在线观看黄 | 蜜桃久久久久久久 | 亚洲免费网站 | 黄色av影院 | 一区二区三区四区国产 | 日本欧美在线观看 | 亚洲热在线观看 | 欧美1级 |