Word: ariels
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Shamir can, however, still expect a leadership challenge from former Defense Minister Ariel Sharon. And even as his Herut Party was squabbling, the opposition Labor Party showed unity as it rallied behind Leader Shimon Peres. Before 1,000 party delegates, Peres' archrival Yitzhak Rabin declared, "The fifth President of the state of Israel and the fifth Prime Minister-if you've forgotten, that's me-recommends electing the fifth Defense Minister Shimon Peres as the eighth Prime Minister of the state of Israel." Although all those numbers may have sent heads reeling, other figures were sure...
...late January, Israeli forces captured a team of six heavily armed terrorists who had infiltrated from Lebanon through Jordan. Word reached me that Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon had recommended heavy attacks on P.L.O. bases in retaliation, followed by an invasion if the P.L.O. escalated in reaction...
...Israeli official last week saw the threat of Jewish-Arab violence as reason to pursue one of his country's most inflammatory policies, the settlement of Israelis in the West Bank. In a radio interview, Minister Without Portfolio Ariel Sharon raised the hypothetical possibility of Israeli military retaliation against West Bank towns for Arab terrorist acts, unless Jewish settlers are moved into every Arab community. Said Sharon: "If [the West Bank city of] Nablus will be a place which is a center of terror, and Jews won't enter it, it is reasonable to assume that...
...fire in 1981 brought those attacks to a halt, but in June 1982 Israel used them-as well as the attempted assassination of its ambassador in London-as a pretext to invade Lebanon. Instead of merely clearing the border area, as Prime Minister Menachem Begin and his Defense Minister Ariel Sharon had promised, the army charged ahead to Beirut. The real aims of Israel's Peace for Galilee campaign: to destroy the P.L.O., humiliate the Syrians and reinforce Lebanon's Christian-dominated government...
...dark star of Shiffer's story is Ariel Sharon; the central theme, how Sharon pressed for the invasion from the day he became Defense Minister in 1981. That is not news, of course, but Snow Ball amply documents Sharon's zealous lobbying in Cabinet meetings and among his generals. Sharon plumped for the attack, according to Shiffer, despite the fact that Israeli military intelligence concluded that the skirmishing between Palestine Liberation Organization forces and Israeli soldiers along the Lebanese border in July 1981 was provoked by the Israelis, not by the P.L.O. The Begin government, which used...