No progress in Likud-National Union coalition talks By Yossi Verter and Lily Galili, Haaretz Correspondents, and Haaretz Service Shinui chairman Yosef Lapid at talks with the Likud on Sunday. (Photo: Nir Keidar) Coalition talks between the Likud and the far-right National Union, which vociferously opposes the creation of a Palestinian state, ended without any progress Monday afternoon. The two sides were deadlocked over Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's commitment to include the notion of Palestinian statehood in the guidelines of his new government. The Likud coalition team presented a document at the meeting stipulating that the government would operate on the...