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...emotionally charged absolute. Soon after Golda Meir took office in 1969, the Israeli psychology began to shift away from the old predisposition to negotiate. A British governor of Jerusalem, Sir Ronald Storrs, once referred to the ''mystic, the almost frightening, metallic clang of Zionism.'' With the election of Menachem Begin in 1977, the strain of biblical nationalism, the manifest destiny of Abraham's covenant, came parading through the Israeli mind. It was a triumphal Messianism that now justified the occupation, making it not only permissible but also inevitable. The West Bank became, to Begin and his supporters, the biblical lands...
...real danger, Harkabi believes: ''If an individual claims that he can live only provided that he sits on the shoulders of another individual, and further that he has the right to drive his fingernails into the other's body (that is, in this instance by establishing settlements), people will begin to question whether it might be better if such an individual did not exist. Never before has Israel prejudiced its claim to legitimacy...
...Only in 1977 did Egyptian President Anwar Sadat break the stalemate by traveling to Jerusalem to set a partial peace in motion. In 1979 Israel agreed to return all of the Sinai to Egypt in return for the formal peace treaty negotiated with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and President Jimmy Carter at Camp David. That event was one of Israel's finer moments, but its full promise was never realized. Sadat paid for the deal with his life when he was assassinated in 1981, and Egypt was exiled from the Arab community for eight years. Begin, whose conservative Likud...
...territories very quickly, ''for holding on to them would distort, and might ultimately destroy, the Jewish state.'' Prime Minister Levi Eshkol offered to return almost all the territories to the Arabs in exchange for recognition and a promise to negotiate peace. But opposition from Israeli hard-liners, including Menachem Begin, then a Cabinet minister, crippled Eshkol's proposals. Meanwhile, the Arab states responded thunderously with their famous ''three noes'' -- no recognition of Israel, no negotiation, no peace. Twenty-one years later, Israel still holds the territories, but no longer so reluctantly. Twenty-one years is long enough to allow...
...Papadakis, fresh off last weekend’s record-setting performance at Blodgett, captured the one-meter competition with 291 points and took second in the three-meter dive with 327.05 points. The event was Harvard’s last dual meet of the season, as the team will begin to gear up for postseason. First up is the Ivy League Championships in Princeton on Feb. 15-17, which will offer the Crimson a second look at the Tigers. —Staff writer Rebecca A. Compton can be reached at compton@fas.harvard.edu...