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With the Cold War over and Iraq’s defeat assured, Rabin sensed greater opportunities for peace. The inclusion of the Shas Party (a religious party that had broken with Shamir over his inflexibility in the negotiating process) in his governing coalition revealed that the new prime minister preferred to have his administration remain at the center, balanced between left and right and not dependent on a handful of (Israeli) Arab votes. He would play opposites off each other but continue such Likud policies as economic privatization and funding for religious institutions. Yet, following the precedent set by Ben-Gurion, Labor under Rabin limited its cooperation with the religious parties to the religious domain. Certainly, they were to play no role in shaping foreign policy.
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Derfler, L. (2014). Oslo. In: Yitzhak Rabin. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137386595_10
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