Coalition Crisis Flares Over Oslo Vote

The Oslo criminals continue to defend their duplicity with the terrorists even as the full magnitude of the disaster they have created becomes clear to us all. G-d willing the day will come when they will be prosecuted for their crimes against the Jewish people. Meanwhile the few politicians with the courage to stand up to the appeasement cabal are shouted down with insults in the Knesset. We can only hope that the Labor traitors will carry through on their incessant threats to leave the coalition. Only then will we be able to start to reverse the irreparable damage done by these vermin. Almost as if he realizes his time is short, Ben Eliezer is speeding up his efforts to return Yesha to the PLO.

(Ha'aretz) A coalition crisis erupted between Labor and Likud on Wednesday after two Likud MKs voted for a proposal to annul the Oslo Accords.

Labor charged that the two, Abraham Hirchson and Eli Cohen, had thereby violated the Labor-Likud coalition agreement, which included a pledge to abide by the accords. Labor whip Effi Oshaya even informed Prime Minister Ariel Sharon that his party was ending all cooperation with Likud in the Knesset as of that moment.

Oshaya said that Labor was also outraged by the fact that two senior Likud MKs, Communications Minister Reuven Rivlin and coalition chairman Ze'ev Boim, had failed to vote even though they were present in the plenum.

The Likud defections, however, did not affect the outcome of the vote: The motion, submitted by MK Zvi Hendel (National Union), was defeated 29-13.

The debate that preceded the vote was stormy, featuring vociferous exchanges of insults between Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and right-wing MKs. Peres told the plenum that "the Oslo Accords are alive and well according to the coalition agreement, and therefore there is no place for discussing their annulment - unless you also want to annul the government and the coalition." He added that he was sure that if the late prime minister Yitzhak Rabin were still alive, he would have no regrets about having signed the accords.

"He couldn't stand you!" interjected Hendel. "You're destroying the country!" "You brought us to this disaster!" added Michael Kleiner (Herut)."Get rid of your blinkers!" put in Haim Druckman (National Religious Party) Peres responded by attacking settler rabbis, calling them "those terrible politicians from Yesha [the Hebrew acronym for Judea, Samaria and Gaza]."