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Israeli government officials are sharply divided over the concept of an international peace conference. Labor Party leaders, including Foreign Minister Peres, Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Minister without Portfolio Ezer Weizman and former Foreign Minister Abba Eban, have endorsed the idea, but Likud leaders have so far rejected the proposals and Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir has recently renewed his commitment not to withdraw from any portion of the occupied territories. It may be necessary ultimately for the Israeli public to resolve these differences through early national elections...
...establish a commission of inquiry similar to the one headed by Israel's late Chief Justice, Yitzhak Kahan, in 1982-83 to investigate the massacre of Arabs in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut. Shamir dismissed their demands as "hysterical and unjustified." When former Foreign Minister Abba Eban pressed doggedly for such an investigation, Shamir urged caution. "Certain people generate echoes when they speak," Shamir told Eban, "and hence they should think twice before making a declaration." Later, when Eban announced that the Knesset's seven-member intelligence subcommittee would proceed with an inquiry of its own, Shamir...
...Israel was mincing words. Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin called it a "real disaster, a real wound in Israeli-U.S. relations." Foreign Minister Shimon Peres admitted that Israel had made a "regretful mistake." Declared former Foreign Minister Abba Eban: "This is the most difficult moment in the history of Israel's international relations, especially because the wrongdoing was done here...
...bipartisan effort to sidetrack a legal inquiry, which is not subject to Cabinet control, is most unusual; it reflects the government's extreme sensitivity to disclosures about the inner workings of Shin Bet. Nonetheless, support for Zamir and due process of law mounted steadily. Asked former Foreign Minister Abba Eban: "Should law bow before power? Should it abdicate?" Warned the Jerusalem Post: "The foundations of the rule of law in Israel may be in grave jeopardy...
...cushion nations from attack on several occasions, most infamously when the U.N. pulled its troops out of the Sinai Peninsula at the insistence of Gamal Abdel Nasser just before the outbreak of the Six-Day War between Egypt and Israel in 1967. Scoffed former Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban...