Word: hawkishness
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Secondary changes in the new government also give it a slightly more hawkish tilt. The hard-line Moshe Arens took over responsibility for Arab affairs from the dovish Ezer Weizmann. Labor's first Health Minister refused to serve under Shamir; his replacement is inevitably more hawkish. And Zevulun Hammer was chosen by the National Religious Party to replace the long-tenured Yosef Burg, reflecting the general merger of religious sentiment and extreme nationalism, expressed in its most alarming form by Member of Knesset Meir Kahane...
Perhaps even the hawkish Shamir has more freedom of maneuver than Peres had. Like Nixon's opening to China and Begin's treaty with Egypt, the hawks can deliver what the doves cannot. Perhaps...
Moreover, Likud is not the most hawkish party in Israel, nor is Shamir the most extreme member of Likud. For reasons of party politics, Shamir may opt for a noisy show of ideological fervor on West Bank settlements. Indeed, already he has called for "Zionist economics" (mirroring the equally vague "Islamic economics...
...controversy began last summer, when Jacobs heard Robertson make a speech supporting military action by U.S.-backed rebels in Nicaragua. Jacobs thought McCloskey, a Korean War veteran who had been assigned to the same unit as Robertson, had once singled out the evangelist as a hawkish conservative who had avoided combat service. Jacobs, who served as a combat infantryman with the Marines in Korea, asked McCloskey to provide greater detail...
Kampelman the Democrat is out of the Henry ("Scoop") Jackson mold: like the late Washington Senator, he favors liberal social policies while taking a hawkish stance on national defense. He was not always so promilitary. The son of a hat salesman in the Bronx, Kampelman had graduated from New York University and was working his way through law school when he was drafted in 1942. A Jew, he cited religious reasons in declaring himself a conscientious objector. Says he: "I just couldn't see myself killing anyone." Rather than fight, he volunteered for alternative service in a program...