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...nation's prestige abroad. Night after night, throughout much of the world, television screens had shown Israeli forces using their sophisticated American-made weaponry to produce devastation in densely populated West Beirut. Abba Eban, a former Foreign Minister and a leading member of the opposition Labor Party in the Knesset, was undoubtedly correct when he concluded, "Israel's policies, image, character, values and aspirations are less understood and admired today than in any other period of her history...
...last week, members of the Begin government systematically attacked the Reagan peace proposals. Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who had opposed the Camp David agreements, said that Washington had "markedly deviated from Camp David in almost each and every clause of its new plan." He told the Knesset that the Reagan initiative was "an attempt to bend and subjugate Israel" and that the U.S. was "no longer an honest broker" because it had chosen to side with the Arabs. Other Israeli officials objected to the linking of Jordan's King Hussein to the future of the occupied territories. As a Begin...
...Jewish youth in Poland when the Nazis were on the march; as leader of the Jewish underground organization, the Irgun, when the Jews were fighting the British in Palestine for their own state; as the opposition leader against the dominant Labor Party for 26 long years in the Israeli Knesset. When Menachem Begin triumphantly led his right-wing Likud coalition to an upset victory in 1977, he was a stubbornly independent leader who was unlike any the young nation had ever had as Prime Minister...
...Presence, balance, peace," said Mitterrand, the first French head of state to visit Israel. "Those are the same words I spoke to the Knesset in April...And I say to you now. France's Arab policy will never be anti-Israel, just as France's Israeli policy will never be anti-Arab." Mitterrand called once again for a homeland for the Palestinians. "But the PLO must, above all else, recognize the right of Israel to exist within secure borders, in peace...
Begin replied to the criticism in an 87-minute speech, his longest in the Knesset since he became Prime Minister. Then the debate shifted to a special Cabinet meeting, which had been called by Sharon himself. Although the burly ex-general had been running the war more and more on his own, on this occasion he solicited the Cabinet's support for a series of tactical moves around Beirut as part of the Israelis' continuing effort to strengthen their military positions. Deputy Prime Minister Simcha Ehrlich, who had generally supported Sharon in the past, immediately declared that...