Word: dovishness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...major change in policy. Shlomo Avineri, a noted scholar of Marx and Hegel who served as Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, was appointed Director-General of the Foreign Ministry, Israel's second ranking foreign affairs post. Avineri is extremely dovish by Israeli standards--in a recent issue of Foreign Policy he expressed support for return of the occupied territories and for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state as part of a general peace agreement. The fact that someone articulating views so radically different from the policy of the government has been...
...street." While being attacked from the right, he is also getting hell from the left, either because liberals have abandoned their traditional support of detente or because they oppose his interventionist views in Angola and elsewhere. He is thus in the unusual position of being accused of being too dovish and too hawkish...
...intrigued Palestinian moderates, including Yasser Arafat. According to some reports, he is ready to accept a "half a loaf solution to the Middle East problem-a state on the West Bank and in Gaza, instead of all Palestine. Although they are still a distinctly minority voice, at least five dovish ministers in the Israeli Cabinet have called for a new policy under which Israel would announce its willingness to negotiate with any group of Palestinians that would recognize Israel, renounce the use of terrorism against it, and accept the Security Council's resolutions on the Middle East. Proponents...
...ROCKEFELLER, continuing to speak of a North Vietnamese-caused bloodbath, prepared to accept the end of the American-caused bloodbath he had consistently supported, moderately dovish liberals like The New York Times or the self-styled presidential contender Morris Udall insisted that any attempt by President Ford to make the Vietnam war a political issue was unwise, immoral, and doomed to failure. More principled opponents of the war--Times columnist Anthony Lewis, for example--joined in insisting that the United States should concentrate not on attaching blame for past mistakes in Vietnam, but on administering future, non-political...
Fragile Coalition. The Israeli attitude may yet frustrate the latest round of talks. Prior to Kissinger's visit, even some dovish politicians in Jerusalem were coming round to the hawk point of view that the country gave up too much for what it received during previous negotiations. On the Golan Heights, for instance, many Israelis feel that they should have held onto the provincial capital of Quneitra instead of returning it to the Syrians. Officially, Premier Rabin was authorized by his Cabinet to conclude only what Jerusalem called a thirty-fifty deal-a military pullback in the Sinai...