Word: knesset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Meir, wearing a new turquoise midi that was far brighter than her mood, delivered a 30-minute foreign policy speech to the Knesset that sounded like a subtle no to Washington's plan. A temporary ceasefire, Mrs. Meir said, would only permit the Arabs to "prepare for the renewal of the war in a more intense form." Her point was underscored when Soviet-made SA-2 missiles near the Suez Canal brought down a Phantom jet and an Israeli Skyhawk within half an hour of each other. The planes were the only ones to be destroyed...
Still, Mrs. Meir's Knesset speech was not a definite rejection. Nor have Israel's opponents thus far rejected Rogers' proposals. Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser, who arrived in Moscow for a week-long official visit, met three times with Soviet Communist Boss Leonid Brezhnev and Premier Aleksei Kosygin, principally to discuss the U.S. overture. At the United Nations, Russian Ambassador Yakov Malik indicated that Moscow might be amenable to something less than complete Israeli withdrawal. Russia's Ambassador to Washington, Anatoly Dobrynin, made the same point six weeks ago in the private discussions...
...important factor, however, was the timing. Premier Golda Meir of Israel, Rogers noted, had informed the Knesset in Jerusalem that her government accepted the principles of the U.N. resolution. Foreign Minister Abba Eban hinted that Israel would be willing to make surprising concessions once negotiations began. Even hawkish Defense Minister Moshe Dayan allowed that "we are ready to give up a great deal for peace, and that includes territories." Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, meanwhile, had pointedly emphasized in a May Day speech that "we have not closed the door completely with the U.S." During a recent television interview, moreover...
...summer session of Israel's parliament had hardly come to order for the first time last week when a page delivered a handwritten note to Speaker Reuven Barkatt. "For some time I have not been able to come to Knesset sessions," read the familiar scrawl, "and I do not see any possibility in the future, either, of taking part. I am not entitled to bear the name of Knesset member if I cannot fulfill my obligation to participate, and I hereby submit my resignation." Thus did David Ben-Gurion, seated in the Knesset's first row, announce...
After a dry-eyed departure from the Knesset, Ben-Gurion returned to the cool of his Tel Aviv home to reminisce with TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin about his long career. Ben-Gurion professed himself generally satisfied with his life. But the old man, who will spend most of his time on his Sde Boker kibbutz in the Negev, confided that he had found work on the land more fulfilling than statecraft. Among his reflections...