Word: eban
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other well-respected Israelis have also strongly opposed the Beirut siege. Abba Eban, the former Foreign Minister and onetime Ambassador to the U.S., declared in the Jerusalem Post: "This war is already on the way to becoming the most traumatic of all the Israeli experiences ... These weeks have been a dark age in the moral history of the Jewish people...
...AWACS to Saudi Arabia and reached an agreement to sell advanced weapons to King Hussein of Jordan (whose family came from Saudi Arabia at Britain's behest in 1946). In the process, the U.S. has simply given Begin more incentive to act intransigently and to defy America. Even Abba Eban, foreign minister in the Israeli Labor governments from 1966 to 1974, said at Harvard this month that "it is better to be alive than to be popular-because if I'm dead, I might be briefly popular at the funeral oration, but I won't be around...
...Egyptian requirement that 30 tanks and six batteries of howitzers remain on the east bank of the Canal. At noon we were finished. "It is a good agreement," I said. "It is not a bad agreement," said Deputy Prime Minister Yigal Allon. " 'Not bad' is Hebrew for 'good,' " explained Eban, ever the diplomat...
There was now nothing to do but wait. My colleagues and I feared some unforeseeable snag. Then at 3:55 p.m. Eban arrived with the news: "The Cabinet has approved the agreement...
Getting to the airport for a final shuttle to Aswan proved far from simple. With snow blocking the road, our hosts suggested going by train from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv. The railway cars dated back to Turkish times, or so Eban claimed. But as we bounded through the snow-covered Judean hills, it seemed an appropriately surrealistic ending to three months of frantic diplomacy. On the way, Eban and I talked. Would the Arab nations ever genuinely accept peace with Israel? That was Arab nations ever