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 A second party has been banned from the
 Israeli general elections on July 23.  
                                        
 The leftist Arab-Jjwiuh Progressive    
  jut For Peace which seeks direct talks
 between Israel and the PLO was banned  
 bz a Knesset committee brcpusj of its  
 "subversive principles and tendjncieu".
                                        
 The extreme right-wing Kach ante-Arab  
 party was banned on Sunda8. The liadjr1
 of both parties said they would appeal 
 in the Supreme Cozvt.                  
                                        
  Wpinion polls show the opposition    
 Labour Party leading the rzling Likud  
 coalition by a margin varying between  
 1p and 1v per cent.