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...spite of this unexpected distraction, Washington's main concern in the region was still the legacy of the fighting in Lebanon. In Israel, the government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin survived three no-confidence motions in the Knesset, all of them aimed at expressing the opposition's displeasure over the way in which the government had dealt with the recommendations of the independent commission charged with investigating the Beirut massacre of last September. In Lebanon, the fragile government of President Amin Gemayel accomplished the symbolic feat of replacing Christian militiamen on duty in Christian East Beirut with government...
...death of a Peace Now demonstrator, Emil Greenzweig, 33, in a hand-grenade explosion outside the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem two weeks ago. Begin called the killing a "loathsome murder," while Deputy Foreign Minister Yehuda Ben-Meir of the National Religious Party told the Knesset how shocked he was when he saw TV reporting of "rabble" throwing stones at Peace Now demonstrators and then entering a hospital in an effort to prevent the injured from receiving medical care. Said Ben-Meir: "It is this that constitutes the real danger in Israel, not [P.L.O. Chairman Yasser] Arafat. Arafat...
...easier to make peace with Begin than to make peace with someone else while Begin leads the Labor parts in the Knesset...
...history and raised tensions between the U.S. and Israeli governments to a level unprecedented in more than a quarter of a century. Yet that did not diminish the stubborn Prime Minister's resolve. "No one will set for us the borders of Eretz Yisrael," he shouted in the Knesset after President Reagan proposed in September that the West Bank should in the future be linked to Jordan. Using the biblical names for the occupied territory, as he always does, Begin thundered: "Judea and Samaria belong to the Jewish people for all generations...
...show open, and many Israelis obviously approved. As the independent newspaper Ha'aretz observed, "You don't have to love Levin's play or agree with his opinions to defend his right to say whatever he likes." At midweek in a preliminary vote, the Israeli Knesset expressed its support of a bill that would abolish all censorship of films and plays...