Identifier
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05TELAVIV5013
2005-08-12 13:48:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Tel Aviv
Cable title:  

LIKUD INTERNAL STORM POSTPONED UNTIL AFTER

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C O N F I D E N T I A L TEL AVIV 005013

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/12/2015
TAGS: PGOV KWBG IS GOI INTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
SUBJECT: LIKUD INTERNAL STORM POSTPONED UNTIL AFTER
DISENGAGEMENT

REF: TEL AVIV 4946

Classified By: Political Counselor Norman Olsen for reasons 1.4 (b,d).

(C) The Likud internal court has given Prime Minister Sharon
at least a month of political breathing space by rejecting
August 11 a petition by supporters of Binyamin Netanyahu to
compel the Likud Central Committee to meet and vote on moving
up Likud Party primaries. The court instead "asked" Central
Committee Chairman Tzachi Hanegbi to determine within five
days when the Central Committee will meet, and decided that
at that meeting the Central Committee should discuss, but is
not obligated to vote on, a date for Likud primaries.
Hanegbi indicated to the media that the meeting would not
take place until at least after disengagement, which would
put it sometime in mid to late September, and that it could
take place before the Jewish holidays begin October 4.
Central Committee member and Netanyahu supporter David Sharan
told poloff August 12 that he believes Hanegbi will decide on
an early October date for the meeting.


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