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Prime Minister Begin appeared to have solved, for the moment at least, the political crisis precipitated by the report's findings. He removed Ariel Sharon, the government official most criticized by the commission, as Defense Minister, but immediately named him a Minister Without Portfolio, thereby minimizing the damage to himself and to Sharon. As predicted, Begin then appointed Moshe Arens, Israel's Ambassador to the U.S. for the past year, as Sharon's replacement at the Defense Ministry. The result, as Interior Minister Yosef Burg put it, was that Begin had made no concessions "to the Americans...
...sorts to the most unpopular war in Israel's history. But this is not true. The troop-withdrawal talks remain deadlocked, and relations with the U.S. are as strained as they have ever been. Nor is it clear whether the mere transfer from one Cabinet post to another of Ariel Sharon is an appropriate response to the recommendations of a commission that was investigating a terrible crime. Presumably Menachem Begin has been somewhat weakened by the report and by the events of the past eight months. But so far he has managed to hold his government together...
Efrat, now an energy-industry executive, was the panel's quiet member. But when he spoke it was as a man personally acquainted with both military habit and Ariel Sharon. In Israel's war of independence, he broke out of the hospital a week after being shot in the neck, in order to rejoin his platoon; during the 1967 war he commanded the audacious Golani Brigade, which seized seemingly unassailable Syrian positions. Since then, he has proved similarly dauntless in inquiries into episodes of possible army misconduct. As a former aide to Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan, Efrat...
...silence was deceptive because the report on the Beirut massacre and Ariel Sharon's subsequent resignation as Defense Minister may have a profound effect, for better or for worse, on U.S.-Israeli relations. At stake is not only Washington's attempt to break the deadlock over the withdrawal of foreign troops from Lebanon, but also the far broader objective, set out in Reagan's peace initiative last September, of solving the Palestinian problem by linking the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip to Jordan...
...sharing military intelligence gleaned by Israel in its Lebanese victory. Weinberger's decision to speak out just as the Israeli Cabinet was meeting to discuss the massacre-investigation report presumably was no coincidence. It was his way of saying that the Pentagon prefers not to deal with Ariel Sharon...