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Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir told the Knesset last week that if Syria did not pull its troops out of Lebanon now, "Israel will be free to act according to its interests." He meant that Israel would leave its troops in Lebanon as long as it saw fit, perhaps concentrating them in more defensible positions in the southern part of the country. By late last week most of the "clarifications" of the agreement that Israel had demanded had been sorted out, paving the way for a signing some time this week...
...Israeli government reacted with relief to news that the Arafat-Hussein talks had failed. When President Reagan proposed his plan last September, Prime Minister Begin reminded the Knesset that the West Bank, which he refers to as Judea and Samaria, "will be for the Jewish people for generations upon generations." Said outgoing Israeli Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan last week: "The settlements will be established, and all the Arabs can do about it is scurry around like doped cockroaches in a bottle." Few Israeli officials would express their views so callously, but this blind determination to retain a captured territory...
Prime Minister Menachem Begin sat glumly in his chair, but members of the Labor opposition burst into jubilant shouts as the speaker read the final tally. In a secret ballot, the Israeli Knesset had elected the Labor Party candidate, Chaim Herzog, 64, a former Ambassador to the United Nations, to serve as President for the next five years. He defeated a politically obscure candidate put up by the Likud, Supreme Court Justice Menachem Elon, 59, by a vote...
Political analysts were divided over just what had happened. There was some speculation among Knesset members that the defectors might have come from two tiny parties in the coalition, the ultrareligious Agudat Yisrael and Tami, an ethnic party of Sephardic Jews. Another explanation might be that some members simply preferred a man of Herzog's stature. Said Labor Leader Shimon Peres: "We were wise enough to present the best candidate...
...neighbor as thyself.' " The opposition resolution declared that Greenzweig had been "murdered as the result of a criminal attempt to attack freedom of speech and the foundations of democratic life." After the vote, Interior Minister Burg, whose son had been injured in the grenade attack, said that the Knesset's failure to produce a joint statement was "a discredit...