Word: ariels
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...Washington D.C., while TIME Photographer David Rubinger was on assignment in Spain. But both hurried back to Israel to join TIME'S Robert Slater, who was covering the political action in Jerusalem. Within hours they were in the battle zone. Rubinger photographed Halevy interviewing Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon at a forward military command post. One reporter found himself in the right place, right from the start. TIME'S Leroy Aarons had been dispatched protectively by Jerusalem Bureau Chief David Aikman to Metulla, Israel's northernmost town. On Sunday morning, one of the three main waves...
...forward to the day with a kind of grim relish, and the defenders with a growing sense of defiance. Israel had actually massed its invasion forces four times near its northern border with Lebanon, then each time aborted a strike. But when the Israeli Cabinet finally gave Defense Minister Ariel Sharon the go-ahead for the attack at 11 a.m. on a sunny Sunday morning in Galilee, the impact was stunning, and the portents were both uncertain and ominous...
...stamp of one man. He had been spoiling for the fight against the Palestine Liberation Organization since he became Defense Minister last August. He had intensively lobbied Prime Minister Menachem Begin and his Cabinet to approve it. He aggressively directed every logistical detail of it. And, in the end, Ariel ("Arik") Sharon, 54, will reap the rewards, or the blame, for the success or failure of the enterprise. The stakes were high: Sharon hopes to become Prime Minister of Israel one day. But brinkmanship has always been his game. As one veteran Israeli politician observed last week, "He may just...
...Syrian policy because of the strong Syrian role in Lebanon. An unlikely backer of the Tehran regime has been Israel, which regards Iraq as a more dangerous threat than Iran and thereby follows the ancient adage "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." Last week Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon surprised even his Cabinet colleagues by confirming reports that Israel has indeed been providing Iran with a limited amount of military aid, reportedly consisting of ammunition and spare parts for planes. U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger made clear to Sharon that the U.S. did not appreciate the Israeli...
...introducing the no-confidence motion, Opposition Leader Peres was also trying to capitalize on growing discontent with Defense Minister Ariel Sharon's brutal repression of Palestinians on the occupied West Bank. As he told a Labor Party meeting in Tel Aviv last week: "When I was Minister of Defense [1974-77], I made sure that Israeli soldiers in the West Bank kept the safety catches of their weapons on." To woo Peretz and Linn, Peres offered them safe Labor seats in the next election. He also hoped to benefit from the fact that the three-member ultranationalist Tehiya Party...