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...Friday Check in at Beit al Mamlouka, www.almamlouka.com, a boutique hotel in a restored courtyard house in the Old City, and one of Damascus' best. Dine on French and Syrian cuisine in a pretty courtyard round the corner at Elissar, tel: (963-11) 542 4300. The mezze are a meal in themselves. (See 50 essential travel tips...
...White House, which was shaken as much by the fact that the story had leaked as it was over the prospect of another Israeli spy, refused all comment. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office denounced the report as "totally baseless." Added Eliahu Ben-Elissar, Israel's ambassador in Washington: "Certainly after the Pollard affair, we would have been crazy...
...dare you even think of attaching strings to your aid, says Eliahu Ben- Elissar, an influential Shamir aide. "We are not a colony." Ben-Elissar is right. Israel is not a colony -- but neither is it an indigent client entitled to assistance as a matter of right against American interests...
When Eliahu Ben-Elissar, a member of the conservative Likud Party, charged that Palestinians in the occupied territories are "sending out children and women to the streets to cope with Israeli soldiers," cries of outrage erupted in the audience. When he claimed further that the Jewish concern for women and children is something that "is not known in, maybe, your circles," the comment was hotly denounced by the Palestinians as an "outright racist statement." In the midst of this tinderbox, Koppel handled himself with poise / and scrupulous fairness, trying his best (not always successfully) to cut short rambling speeches...
...Egyptians, including official delegations, journeyed to Israel. One reason for the lopsided traffic: the comparative prosperity of Israelis, who are avid travelers. Ostracized by much of the Arab world, Egyptians on the whole have been more circumspect and slower to warm to friendly relations. The choice of Ben Elissar, 48, a close political ally of Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and a former high intelligence official, to be Israel's first Ambassador to Egypt seemed hardly reassuring at the outset. Eventually, however, Ben Elissar, with his trim pharaonic beard, became a familiar figure in Cairo. Gratified by the change...