Word: aharonoth
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...right-wing coalition would make things easier for Sharon in the Cabinet room, and in any case Israelis are moving swiftly toward the right as the violence of the intifadeh continues. In a poll last week in Israel's biggest newspaper, Yedioth Aharonoth, 53% of Israelis surveyed said they believed Arafat should be deposed, while 24% thought the Palestinian leader should be killed. But Sharon remembers the divisions that shattered Israeli society when a right-wing government, in which he was the Defense Minister, took the army into Lebanon in 1982 without left-wing support, and when a left-wing...
...This is complete nonsense, absolute lies," Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir declared last week to the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonoth. Dore Gold of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University voiced a suspicion common in Israel: "What we're witnessing is a kind of psychological warfare between allies, particularly because Washington faced a very embarrassing moment after its failure to grab the Scud ship." But questions will linger because Israel has sold enough military technology to China in the past to make the latest charges seem plausible...
...visit would actually take place: perhaps it was all a ruse to lull Israel into complacency. Among the skeptics was the army's chief of staff, Lieut. General Mordechai Gur, who defied a gag order from Defense Minister Ezer Weizman and gave an interview to the Hebrew daily Yedioth Aharonoth, in which he offered a "worst case" scenario. Gur suggested that Sadat was preparing to launch a surprise attack on Israeli-occupied Sinai, similar to the one that started the 1973 October War. The general warned all Israelis to be "cautious and alert" while the visit was in progress...
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