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Rejection Front. Despite such arguments, Rabin will still have a hard tune convincing many Israelis. A poll taken by the newspaper Ha'aretz showed that 47.6% of his countrymen expressed dissatisfaction with his efforts, while only 37% gave approval. Though he could probably push the proposed agreement through the Knesset, he would have opposition from left, right and even the center of his own Labor Party. "This settlement bodes no good for Israel," says Zevulun Hammer, a member of the right-wing National Religious Party. "We get no political compensation for giving up territory. We expose ourselves...
...from publishing his diplomatic memoirs of the Six-Day War. Large portions of Golan's 300-page review of the Yom Kippur War and its diplomatic aftermath consisted of official documents tied together with transitional passages. As diplomatic correspondent of the fiercely independent Hebrew-language daily Ha'aretz (circ. 55,000), Golan obviously had access to top-level sources, possibly within Israel's notoriously leaky Cabinet. Along with trading Kissinger stories last week, Israelis debated the identity of their own Deep Throat...
...Jerusalem, at least, Kissinger's problem was complicated by increasing Israeli distrust of his motives as well as nagging fears that his step-by-step diplomacy would harm Israel in the end. Ha'aretz, Israel's most influential newspaper, worried about the impact of Kissinger's peace plans: "It is not clear enough if the American Secretary of State intends to mediate between Israel and Egypt in full awareness that there is a partnership between us and the U.S., or whether he wants to succeed at any price, a price that Israel alone will have...
...state has gone through a devaluation," writes Columnist Joel Marcus in the daily Ha'aretz, "a devaluation in leadership ability, devaluation in spirit, in values, in morale, in faith and self-confidence." Traditionally respected as the savior of the nation, even the army has come under attack for incompetence. Following a hue and cry about the lack of cold-weather gear for soldiers on the frosty Golan Heights, civilian volunteers and even tourists went up to the front to distribute American parkas, long underwear and woolen socks. The government is understandably apprehensive about the upcoming report of a blue...
Some dissenting voices were raised, notably those of the Israel Airline Pilots Association and Histadrut (Labor Union) Secretary-General Yitzhak Ben-Aharon. The liberal morning newspaper Ha'aretz warned that "in the wake of this operation, Israel loses the image of a country which respects the freedom of international civil operation." All but obscured in the debate was the stark fact that in choosing to skyjack the Iraqi Airways flight in hopes of bagging Dr. George Habash, a high-ranking leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Israel in effect had decided that ends justify means...