Word: hawkishness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attacked from the right, he is also getting hell from the left, either because liberals have abandoned their traditional support of detente or because they oppose his interventionist views in Angola and elsewhere. He is thus in the unusual position of being accused of being too dovish and too hawkish...
...critics charge that his ardent Zionism is giving the magazine a new kind of predictability, not only in its treatment of the Middle East, but the rest of the world. Disgruntled former members of the staff say his yardstick for all matters is how they affect Israel, that his hawkish position on Israel has had a ripple effect on other issues. One of them cynically suggests that the magazine be renamed "The Middle East..And the Rest of The World...
Udall split with Lyndon Johnson on Viet Nam as early as 1967, but foreign policy is not his strong point. Favoring detente in principle, Udall argues, along with Scoop Jackson, that the policy must be a "two-way street." He is hawkish on the side of Israel, which he visited last week. He urged Israel to sign the interim agreement with Egypt "even if signing it is as risky as rejecting it." He has strongly opposed the proposed sale of antiaircraft missiles to Jordan. In place of what he calls "complex, exotic, often unreliable new hardware," he would prefer...
Ehud Olmert and Yoram Avidor are members of the hawkish opposition block, Likud. Olmert, at 29 the youngest Knesset member, belongs to the Free Center party and Avidor, 42, is a member of the somewhat more conservative Cherut party...
...think the Israeli mood is more hawkish than ever before," says Olmert. "The Israeli people are peaceloving, but they feel they are left without a choice...