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- Simon Peres appeared on course to victory in Israel’s 1996 parliamentary election, a result that would keep him and the center-left Labor Party in power.
- Simon Peres made peace the key campaign issue, pledging to provide West Bank and Gaza Strip territory to the Palestinians.
Why it matters: Peres and Labor stood to retain control of the Israeli government in 1996, while his pledge made Palestinians the stated beneficiaries of a territorial proposal for the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The excerpt’s central electoral stake is continuity for a center-left administration linked directly to a peace offer.
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