Word: ariels
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...peace and a man of war. In April, fulfilling one of its obligations under the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, Israel removed its soldiers and settlers from the Sinai and returned the last of the territory to Egyptian sovereignty. Scarcely six weeks later, Begin and his Defense Minister, Ariel Sharon, sent the Israeli army into southern Lebanon, supposedly with the limited aim of dealing a fast, deadly blow to Palestine Liberation Organization guerrillas who were in a position to shell villages in northern Israel. Had Begin held to his initial, publicly stated objective of removing the P.L.O. from a 28-mile...
...Ariel Sharon did lie, repeatedly, to the Israeli Cabinet as to the progress of the war in Lebanon. This was pointed out most notably in the Israeli press, and further confirmed by the Cabinet's order in August to Sharon to report planned military actions, in response to the heedless nature of his approach in Beirut...
Menachem Begin and Ariel Sharon for their attempt to eradicate the P.L.O., perpetrators of international terrorism. M. Roy Brenner Johannesburg
...only the thinnest, topmost fuel for ad hominem attacks that The Longest War's incredible pomposity provides. The book's argument, or at least what one intuits is supposed to represent the argument, is far less substantial. Its basic premise reads "Menachem Begin is unbalanced," and "deep inside himself [Ariel] Sharon has reserved a war for Israel." Beyond this, Timerman follows the classic Vietnam scenario of an insidious bureaucracy intervening between the people and the demonic leadership, while managing a war no one wants. He supports this argument with one nebulous assertion after another of government impropriety lying, manipulating, concealing...
...Beirut massacre. In that infamous incident, at least 800 Palestinians were killed in September by Lebanese Christian militiamen who had been allowed by Israeli military authorities to enter two refugee camps in Beirut. Last week the commission sent formal letters of warning to Prime Minister Begin, Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir and six ranking military and intelligence officials. The commission advised each man that he was "liable to be harmed" by the results of the inquiry and that he had 15 days in which to request permission to reappear before the commission to offer further testimony. Each...