Word: ariels
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...existing evidence for this claim is abundant, and certain incidents keep the flame of protest especially high. In December 1981, for instance, Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon spent 10 days in South Africa, and traveled to "operational areas" in Nambia, the place from which South Africa was launching attacks on Angola. (1) The more ordinary reports on Israel and South Africa are equally disturbing, such as the help Israel has provided South Africa in building huge electrified fences as an "anti-guerrilla" measure...
...concern also had a personal dimension: he felt insulted by the manner in which Assad had harangued him during a meeting last July and betrayed by Syria's refusal to withdraw its troops from Lebanon after he had got Israel to agree to do so. The replacement of Ariel Sharon by Moshe Arens as Defense Minister and of Begin by Shamir has also helped improve relations. In a gesture toward Washington, Arens reversed his predecessor's policy by offering to share intelligence on how U.S. and Soviet weapons performed during the Lebanese invasion...
While Shamir was gathering the reins of power, one of his more prominent colleagues, former Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, was making an apparent power play of his own. Ever since his demotion last February to Minister Without Portfolio, Sharon has blamed the press for inciting criticism of the war in Lebanon. Last week, speaking before a small crowd in a Jerusalem mall, Sharon called Israeli journalists "hypocrites" and "masters of self-destruction." Warming to his subject, he shouted to his audience, "Who are the news media?" To which the crowd responded, "P.L.O.! P.L.O.!" The National Press Association retaliated with...
...redeploy Israeli forces to the Awali. In one of his last acts as Prime Minister, Begin agreed to the Reagan request; in return, he received some harsh criticism from one of his colleagues. At the Cabinet meeting at which Begin announced his plan to resign, Minister Without Portfolio Ariel Sharon, who, as Defense Minister, had been the chief architect of Israel's misadventure in Lebanon, attacked him for having "sold out" to the Americans. The redeployment, which the Israelis were anxious to carry out in order to reduce their casualties, started late last week, leaving behind it an inevitable...
...effort to check Levy's challenge, Shamir warned his fellow Herut Cabinet members of the dangers that might result from a contentious floor fight at a party meeting. "Time is working against us," he argued. "Labor is standing in ambush in the corner." Former Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, who was forced to resign last February after the independent commission found that he had "made a grave mistake when he ignored the danger of acts of revenge and bloodshed" in the Beirut refugee camps, hinted that if the central committee took up the matter there might be many candidates, "including...