1.   A previous dovish government was willing to make territorial concessions.

2.   After a series of Islamic suicide bombs, he defied the dovish government line by calling for peace talks to be suspended.

3.   Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, who served as housing minister in the dovish Labor government, said such massive construction would wipe out any hope for peace.

4.   But officials in the governing Labor Party have suggested Levy could join Rabin in a future dovish government.

5.   But the Palestinians charged Thursday that Netanyahu, who reluctantly inherited the peace accords from the previous dovish Labor government, was seeking a pretext to evade ceding land.

6.   Furthermore, they note that even the previous dovish Israeli government had tried to negotiate the annexation of areas where Jews built settlements.

7.   His strategy is to get what he can from Netanyahu and perhaps hold out for a more dovish Israeli government.

8.   Likud announced Monday it would not join what was shaping up to be a dovish Israeli government.

9.   Syria has said negotiations must be resumed from the point they were at a year ago, when a more dovish Israeli government was in power.

10.   Syria wants the area back in exchange for peace, and claims such a deal was reached in principle with the dovish Labor government.