a price. In 1991, when
                                Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir opposed the Madrid peace talks, President
                                George H.W. Bush held back loan guarantees to help absorb immigrants from
                                the former Soviet Union. Shamir gave in, but his government soon collapsed.</p>
                            <p>But this time, Netanyahu was not hurt by his personal and substantive
                                conflicts with the U.S. president.