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Their aim would be either to hold a new prime-ministerial election or to set up a unity government under another Likud candidate.
Yuval Steinitz, another Likud minister, said on Israel Radio, "The job of a responsible government is not to follow its heart but to see the overall picture".
If a lot seems familiar about the tense climate in Israel, it's worth recalling not only the example of Netanyahu but also that of Shamir, another Likud Prime Minister who faced a wave of street stabbings.
Yisrael Katz, another Likud minister, called for the liquidation of the Hamas leadership in Gaza and said that Israel should stop supplying the enclave with water, electricity, food and fuel.
Another Likud loyalist has become "minister without portfolio responsible for improving the government's services to the citizen .Mr Netanyahu made his name in politics as a fiery reformer in the early 1990s, when huge demonstrations prompted the politicians to change the system.
The Party's dominant young voices include hard-liners like Danny Danon, who, as deputy defense minister, disparaged the Gaza operation as "feeble"; another Likud legislator, Moshe Feiglin, has called himself a "proud homophobe" and has vowed to build a Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount and "fulfill our purpose in this land".
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In the interview tonight, Mr. Barak was asked if he had been overly influenced by his visit today to another former Likud prime minister, Yitzhak Shamir.
"When reality and vision meet, inevitably there is a mellowing down of the vision," said Dan Meridor, another of the Likud princes, who before the last elections served as an adviser to Mr. Sharon on the peace effort.
Mr. Shalom followed Mr. Netanyahu and another government minister from Likud, Limor Livnant, who endorsed the plan on Sunday, all but assuring Mr. Sharon of victory in a referendum on the withdrawal scheduled for May 2 among the 200,000 Likud members.
"Rational" politicians and commentators in Israel dismissed it as yet another alarmist, fear-mongering Likud tactic.
But Mr. Sharon long ago discarded the idea that he was a mere caretaker, and he now hopes to run for prime minister as the Likud candidate -- another stumbling block, although probably a minor one, for Mr. Netanyahu.
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