Word: dovishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spot Peres last week placed a new name: Shoshana Arbelli-Almozlino, 55, a hawkish Knesset member and teacher, who went to Israel from Iraq. It was a shrewd choice, designed to give Labor more appeal among women and non-European Jews and to counter Peres' own relatively dovish image. In a meeting last week to hammer out the key top half of their final list, Peres sounded oddly hawkish himself. He accused Begin of inconsistency in regard to the occupied territories. "I don't accept Begin's statements," he said at one point. "He says...
Visitors to the White House have wondered at Carter's literal acceptance of dovish letters from Leonid Brezhnev. The ruler of a critical Middle East country showed another statesman a handwritten note from the President that was viewed by the recipient as a near insult, a naive and flawed view of the forces at work among Arabs. During the months that the Panama Canal treaties were being discussed, Carter worried in his secret meetings about the fact that the U.S. had never admitted guilt in grabbing control in the Canal Zone and demanding absolute rule there. His hang...
While the hard-lining ultranationalists of Gush Emunim have attracted worldwide attention with their zealous demands for unlimited Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, theirs is far from the prevailing Israeli opinion. Alongside the mass demonstrations of Peace Now, a dovish popular movement, prominent politicians and scholars are starting to demand that the Begin government take a more flexible attitude toward the Palestinians...