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...primary purpose in my trip will be to work out with the United States a peace policy for the future," Peres told reporters at Ben-Gurion International Airport. "The time has come to spell out what are the needed peace initiatives...
...been elaborately orchestrated. Negotiations had gone on for 16 months between Israel and a small faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Through the protracted bargaining, former Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky had served as an intermediary. Finally, at dawn last Monday, a dozen buses carrying 394 Arab prisoners drove to Ben-Gurion International Airport, outside Tel Aviv, where the men boarded three Israeli air force jet transports for Geneva. At approximately the same hour, the three Israeli prisoners took off from Damascus, the capital of Syria. On arrival in Geneva, the Arab prisoners remained aboard the Israeli planes, parked...
...campaign is about much more than policies and personalities. It reflects the collision between the two main camps of Zionism that narrowly avoided civil war at the time of independence: the socialist party of David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister of Israel, and the far more militant Herut Party, founded by Begin. The last election was so bitter that this time both sides signed a sort of clean-campaign pact. The agreement banned tomato-throwing, punching, spitting and any "incitement to violence...
...lampooned what they see as the less disciplined and sophisticated Sephardim, and the Sephardim, in turn, have scorned the standoffish Ashkenazim. In a few particularly ugly instances, the Sephardim have been dubbed "Khomeinis"; they have responded by calling their antagonists "Aske-nazis." Even Prime Ministers, including European-born David Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir, have spoken darkly of the dangers of "mob rule" and sweepingly written off "the primitive Arab mentality" of the Sephardim...
...held their compatriots. In 1950 one Ashkenazic writer in the Tel Aviv daily Ha 'aretz cavalierly described North African immigrants as "completely ruled by primitive and wild passions" and warned that "in their camps you will find dirt, cardgames for money, drunkenness and fornication." Though the Sephardim regarded Ben-Gurion as a messianic deliverer, he declared in a 1965 interview that " the Jews from Morocco have no education. They love their wives, but they beat them. The culture of Morocco I would not like to have here." Golda Meir hardly bothered to conceal her distaste for those from "countries...