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...resignations for the moment. But Begin's reluctance to commit himself to yielding Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank was increasingly viewed as untenable and unrealistic, even by members of his Cabinet. The bitter mood building against the Premier was underscored last week by a member of the Knesset from Begin's Likud coalition. "Labor managed to wreck Israel in 29 years of government," he said. "We [the Likud] managed to do it in only...
...Hill of Evil Counsel), is a dove; a member of a kibbutz in the Jerusalem corridor, he served in a tank unit during Israel's last two wars. Shmuel Katz, 63, was a comrade of Menachem Begin in the underground Irgun movement; a Herut Party member of the Knesset and an Israeli superhawk, he resigned as the Premier's foreign information adviser to protest Begin's moves toward peace. Former Major General Aharon Yariv, 57, was chief of military intelligence from 1964 to 1972; a middle-of-the-roader, he heads the Institute for Strategic Studies...
Zalman Shoval, Member of the Knesset Jerusalem
There had never been any doubt that Israel would respond hard to the latest Palestinian terrorism. Premier Begin had vowed as much when he gravely told the Knesset early last week: "We shall do what has to be done. Gone forever are the days when Jewish blood could be shed with impunity. The shedders of innocent blood shall not go unpunished...
Almost unanimously, Israelis seemed to agree. Despite some urgings for restraint from the U.S. and from Sadat, the Israelis were in no mood to turn the other cheek. Leaders of all Israeli political parties agreed to a Knesset statement declaring that terrorist organizations must be attacked and "exterminated." The occasion called forth a volley of extremist oratory; a small nationalist sect headed by Rabbi Meir Kahane, for instance, openly demanded the expulsion of all Palestinians from Israel, including the 574,000 who are Israeli citizens...