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...private lawyer who is a Likud outsider, is his Justice Minister. The new Defense Minister is Yitzhak Mordechai, a retired general and newcomer to government with no known political views, who cleaved to Netanyahu throughout the campaign. Overall, the Cabinet includes both hard-liners, such as Agricultural Minister Rafael Eitan, a former chief of staff, and moderates, including Meridor and Foreign Minister David Levy, who returns to the post he held from 1988 to 1992 in the last Likud government...
...retired Israeli general that, as a captain, he helped massacre 49 Egyptian POWs during the 1956 war in the Sinai stirred other veterans to speak out about similar atrocities in the war of 1967. The unit allegedly involved in the 1956 incident was commanded by right-wing politician Rafael Eitan, who intends to run for Prime Minister in 1996. At Egypt's request, the Israeli government ordered an investigation...
...favorite word among outraged Israelis. Although Rabin's Labor government was elected 14 months ago on a platform of "land for peace," Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu called for a referendum on a deal he said would only provide ever closer launching pads for P.L.O. attacks on Israel. Rafael Eitan, a former army Chief of Staff who heads the Tsomet Party, charged the government with signing "an agreement with the greatest murderer of Jews since Hitler." In the Knesset, Peres coldly dismissed hecklers with, "You are the men of yesterday. The world has changed...
...Eitan Golan, who headed the Israeli police team that questioned the hijackers, said one of them, whom he did not identify, threatened to commit suicide if he was returned to the Soviet Union...
Last week he did. In statements that echoed the recent pronouncements of a certain Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, Eitan maintained that he had done nothing in the Pollard operation without the direction of his superiors. "In all my activities, I did not act without approval," he said on a radio show. In a separate newspaper interview, Eitan asked, "Do the people responsible appreciate the fact that I agreed to assume the responsibility?" If so, they are not saying so. Israeli officials had no comment...