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...Jerusalem, Cabinet and Knesset discussions of the peace proposal grew heated. Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, who as head of the moderate Labor Party has backed the plan, spoke of a critical juncture for the country: "Perhaps for the first time in the history of Israel, we are about to turn our backs on the chance for peace." In Washington, Secretary of State George Shultz urged Israelis to address the "time bomb" of a rapidly growing population of disenfranchised Palestinians, adding that Israel's best defense is "seeking peace in the neighborhood...
Abroad, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher ordered a re-examination of possible links between Waldheim and the 1944 execution of six British commandos in Greece. In Jerusalem the Israeli Knesset called for Waldheim's resignation or impeachment in light of the panel's report...
...their violence with negotiations, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres publicly applauded the U.S. initiative. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir initially indicated that he might accept "something less" than the Camp David timetable. But under strong pressure from the right wing of his Likud bloc, he expressed little flexibility, telling the Knesset he would make no "territorial concessions" and that the interim autonomy period would have to last for the full five years...
Attempting to put a better face on the army's mission, Rabin told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that there was no policy of "beating for beating's sake." Force was to be used, he said, only "against those acting violently." But Major General Amram Mitzna, the central front commander, admitted in a press conference that the "soldiers are not behaving as well as we had wished" and that "no more than a few" had been court-martialed for using excess force against the Palestinians. He added, somewhat apologetically, "It is confusing, not the policy and the orders...
...speech before Labor Party officials in the Knesset, Rabin defended the policy by pointing out that "no demonstrators have died from being thwacked on the head." Israeli troops armed with wooden truncheons were dispatched to potential trouble spots in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. By week's end United Nations relief officials reported that soldiers had used clubs and fists to beat hundreds of Palestinians, including some women who were caught violating the around-the-clock curfew that has confined tens of thousands to their homes. At least ten of those beaten required hospitalization. Government leaders conceded that...